Incarnation

"In perfect love this law holds: that the lover become like the one he loves; for the greater their likeness the greater their delight. " St. John of the Cross writes this as the Father speaking to His Son, explaining the Incarnation--the Word made flesh. God our Bridegroom and Lover became like the one He loves--His Bride! He did not simply "take on" our flesh, He became our flesh because He loved us, His Church, so deeply. The Church in turn, through her love for Him, has become His body. Love is a transforming power. This should give great hope to the Christian soul--so long as it loves God, it will become like Him and find eternal union with Him in heaven.