I asked Jack to come to union headquarters tonight to help me run off some circulars. I could do it alone, but we're trying to get him involved. It's a little thing, and the kind of thing I could do for many of the other people at work. Why am I doing it?
I think I've made some progress. It's because I've tried, not to take the place of others, but to help them take their own proper place; because I've tried discreetly to edge others towards opportunities to become involved at their own level. It's become almost a habit for me to try to get the people around me to give of themselves. That's why I wonder whether it hasn't become almost too automatic - whether it isn't a refined 'apostolic technique' rather than a gesture full of meaning, love and faith. Today, I must go back to the basic reasons for my actions. I must examine, in the light of faith, the motives for what I do.
I've read a few paragraphs of an article on God. In them, I discovered something that had never occurred to me. The Lord spoke to me through his doctrine, lighting up my life at the very moment when I was about to forget to join myself to him in faith.

God is not alone. If he were, he would be incredibly self-centered. But he is three persons - three persons so intimately united that they are one God.
To love means to forget oneself entirely for the sake of another. It means to give oneself totally and freely in order to enrich another and to become one with him.
In the Trinity, each of the three persons tends wholly towards the others. Each of them is wholly a relationship with respect to the others - a 'subsistent relationship', the theologians call it. It is in that sense that God 'is' love.