I love you
Rome, Second Sunday of Easter, April 24, 1960 downloads/mp3/chi_19761230_en.mp3 {rokbox title=|Scritto di Chiara :: 24/04/1960| size=|fullscreen| thumb=|images/scritti/19600424-scritto-p.gif|}images/scritti/19600424-scritto_en.pdf{/rokbox} I love you I love younot because I have learned to tell you so;not because my heartsuggests these words,not even because faith has made me believethat you are love;and not even because you died for me.I love youbecause you have entered into my lifemore than the air in my lungs,more than the blood in my veins. You have come and enteredwhere no one could enter;when no one could help me,each time no one could console me.Every day I have spoken with you.At every moment I have looked at youand in your countenanceI have found the answer;in your words the explanation;in your love the solution.I love youbecause for many yearsyou have lived with meand I have lived with you.I drank from your law,and did not know it.I was nourished with it,became strong in itI found new courage,but I was unaware of itlike a child who drinks its mother's milkand still does not knowhow to call