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Knowing that God supplies all our necessities, and that one of our necessities is that we surrender to him, we should not be surprised that he comes to us as an infant; for surrender to an infant, any infant, is easy. . . . Every infant demands and receives the most complete self-giving that we are capable of. The perfection of surrender to God is Mary with the infant Christ.
There is nothing more mysterious than infancy, nothing so small and yet so imperious. The infancy of Christ has opened a way to us by which we can surrender self to him absolutely, without putting too much pressure on our weak human nature.
Before a child is born the question which everyone asks is “What can I give him?” When he is born, he rejects every gift that is not the gift of self, everything that is not disinterested love. He rejects everything but that, because that is the only thing he can receive: disinterested love—not one-sided love… .
Giving the Gift of Self. The first giving of this love to a newly born child is the reshaping of our whole life, in its large essentials and in its every detail, in our environment, our habits, ourselves. The…
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I don’t understand what the author means when she states “because that is the only thing he can receive: disinterested love---not one-sided love”.
Why would the child want disinterested love?