Moroni 7:48

A very free "retranslation."

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Pray, sisters and brothers.
Pray with energy.
Think back to the most desperate prayer you ever prayed.
That is the intensity with which I urge you to pray now.

Pray for love.
Pray that God will fill you with love,
fill you to the brim and pouring down the sides.

Do you remember what Jesus said?
"This is how they will know you are my disciples:
if you love one another."
But the love that shows us to be Christ's true followers
is not an exercise in willpower,
a forced patience,
a mustering of tolerance,
a gritting of the teeth.
The love that makes us Christ's,
the love of Christ,
is a gift, a gift from God.

That is why I tell you: Pray.
Pray for the gift of love.
Pray that God will give you the amazing grace
to love as Christ loves—
as selflessly and recklessly and unstintingly.

Do you understand?
You are praying to be transformed.
You are praying to be remade into the very image of Christ.
You are praying to grow, like Christ, from grace to grace,
until you too have obtained the divine fullness,
the fullness of perfected love.
Then, when the day comes
that the veil is parted
and you stand face-to-face
with the Incarnation, the Perfected One,
you will find yourself looking at the mirror image
of what you yourself have become.

Love is the key.
So pray for it, sisters and brothers.
Pray for it harder than you have ever prayed before.
And let the fervor of that unceasing prayer
consume your life.