The Measure of Love

St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote, "The measure of love is to love without measure."  In today's Gospel passage from St. Mark, Jesus says, "The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you, and still more will be given to you.  To the one who has more will be given...." (Mk 4:25), In other words, be generous, "love without measure" and you will be inundated with love.  Be stingy and stingily will you be given.  Does God's immeasurable love hold back because at this time of our lives we are only at  the level of "restricted giving", or, because we are a "work in progress", does he give from the perspective of the whole, finished picture?  It seems that God works the way St. Bernard described..."love without measure." Let that be our goal as well; even though the bar is set higher than we can fully reach, it is a measure that stretches us beyond what we think possible.
Bro. Rene