I like how Bishop Barron uses the term
"instrument of love" to describe a person who has been transformed by
God's grace, and how he encourages us to enable all our circumstances to become
a force for good and a participation in God’s redemptive work. Let your riches be an
instrument of love; let your poverty be an instrument of love; let your
celibacy be an instrument of love; let your marriage be an instrument of love;
let your desire to find a beloved be an instrument of love; let your good
health be an instrument of love; let your ill health be an instrument of love;
let your work be an instrument of love; let your rest be an instrument
of love; let your failures be an instrument of love; let your successes be an
instrument of love, that sort of thing.
To live in grace is to let every circumstance become an instrument of love – and that’s perhaps one of our best prayers; Teach us, Lord, to turn all that we are, and all that we are becoming, into an instrument of love.
