When, in our love for the Divine — either through prayer, contemplation or meditation –we give to that Light our praise or adoration –we are (in fact) graced by that Life in proportion to the amount of love we find in our hearts to offer It. The true Friends of God have always known this law of reciprocal Divine Love. In other words, whatever we give our love to, gives us that love back according to the extent of our giving. The true pleasure of anything we practice for our love of it — gardening, golf, cooking, music, or whatever — is the love we have for that same action.

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