I was trying to achieve my definition of holiness by controlling our journey with Jesus to His Cross, instead of allowing Jesus to lead the way by asking me to embrace my daily mortifications.

I like to think of ordo amoris as the ripple effect after a stone has been thrown into water. When our love is rightly ordered, our capacity to love expands as each ripple gets bigger. 

I can’t be the only one to feel like the overabundant tree. I am unafraid to say ‘yes’ until I begin breaking under the weight and pressure of my obligatory fruit. The fruit may be good… but is it good for me?