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That is what holy moments always feel like: I am great beyond belief and I am a little dot in the universe. This experience only needs to happen once, just as it did for Peter, James, and John.
You are to love with the same kind of love that God loves you, which is total unconditional love. This is the summit and goal of all Jesus’ moral teaching, and we cannot possibly follow it apart from divine union.
I see the three temptations as the primal and universal temptations that all humans must face before they dare take on any kind of power—as Jesus is about to do.
Isaiah tries to describe what a just people and country would look like if they fasted from the right things.
Isaiah says explicitly that God prefers another kind of fasting which changes our actual lifestyle and not just punishes our body.
So today you must pray for the desire to desire! Even if you do not feel it yet, ask for new and even unknown desires.
An ego response is always an inadequate or even wrong response to the moment. It will not deepen or broaden life, love, or inner laughter.
