Another step
Love always beckons another step. Don’t we know that from family life, marriage, communities, friendship?
Love may seem to have nowhere to lay its head as we move from a secure place in love to new trust, new challenges, new demands, as children grow older, a spouse gets ill.
And God may seem distant.
Love has to move on, leaving dead ways of being with someone, rising to new depths of conversation or care, as families move out to marry and raise new families, as our loved ones die or move away.
And God may seem remote.
Love looks back only on thanks. For remembering past times with regret is a way of living in the past, like parents trying to pretend families are not grown
up, or people in mid-life hankering after youth.
Love enjoys the security and life of the present; it is willing to move and grow with each other, and it looks back only to say thanks and bring the spirit of love-grown and deepened from the past-into the future.
And God is in love, for he is the source and the engineer of all true love.
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