The secret of a full and abundant life is instead to join forces with the flow of God’s love in the world, and to take up one’s life as a coworker in God’s ministry of healing. Finding and owning the love – the passion – that gives our lives meaning is to set out on a journey in which we find and foster deeper and more healthy connections with ourselves, others, creation, and God. Then we are engaged in the ministry of compassion, which is life. Dilige, et guid vis fac, wrote Augustine – “Love, and do what you will.”  - James H. Olthuis – The Beautiful Risk