T o love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves summarizes the whole message of the scripture. This is the message of which God wants us to understand, believe, and live everyday – that life is all about loving God and others before anything else. So how do we love God will all our heart, with all our understanding, and with all our strength? This simply tells us that to love God means to give our everything, our whole being, our whole selves, our whole person – heart, mind, our every energy. God is the centrifugal force that brings us all together in this life. We are called towards God. We all move towards Him. God is our destiny. God is our eternity. God is our beginning, the Alpha and the Omega, where we all come from, and will eventually return. That is why loving Him entails nothing more than what we are, who we are, and what we have. Everything belongs to God. Therefore, everything is of God. This means that everything that we do, think ...