"Following Christ influences the very core of our personality. When someone is in love, this fact influences his whole view of things and events, however trivial they may appear. He is influenced by it as he walks along the street, when he is at work, in his attitude toward social relationships - and not only when he is in the company of the person he loves. Being a Christian is the most important characteristic of our existence, and it has to have incomparably more influence on our lives than even human love has on the most ardent lovers.
Christ is the center of our lives and our whole being. Cassian comments, "Let us imagine an architect, who wants to construct the vault of a Cathedral apse. He has to trace the whole circumference beginning with a key point - the center. Guiding himself by this infallible norm, he then has to calculate the exact circumference and the design of the whole building...In this way, a single point becomes the fundamental key to an imposing building." In a similar way, God is the point of reference of our thoughts, our words and our deeds. We should want to build our very existence in relation to him."
- Monday's reflection from In Conversation with God
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