Pope Benny is an intellectual giant. I expected this to be a scholarly approach to God that would be possibly boring but informative; I was wrong.

He writes with a lyrical beauty. Part of this was written (or taken) from Pope JPII so maybe those were his pieces, but at times you can feel the love pouring from the writer's pen onto the page. The words come from a complete belief in the heart, not an understanding in the mind. You aren't left with a plethora of philosophical questions to ponder; you are left with a searching in your heart for if you do enough for others.

None of this is to say that the genius isn't there. Granted, this does not go deep into logic. If you are looking for more of that I would suggest another place. This is a short read that does a great job of explaining the impact of love on our world and ourselves. It speaks of pitfalls many experience or mistakes they make when trying to love.

I would recommend this to any Catholic (obviously, it was written to us) and anyone curious about how Catholics view love. It is not a "We are so awesome because we are Catholic," but rather a "We are called to a higher degree than we thought possible because we are loved."

I will leave it with one excerpt that I found especially insightful, "...we are helped by the knowledge that, in the end, we are only instruments in the Lord's hands; and this knowledge frees us from the presumption of thinking that we alone are personally responsible for building a better world."