Love… bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. – 1 Corinthians 13, WEBBE
To love another is not always to experience days of elation and happiness. It is not a constant feeling of romance, of starlit nights and roses, of endless sweet nothings, of chocolates and champagne and lovely sunsets spent in each other’s arms.
In this life, to love another is to be able to accept everything and bear everything for the sake of that love. It is both living in joy as well as living in sorrow. It is both in bearing the storm and in rejoicing as the sun shines again. It is sharing days filled with adventure as well as days filled only with silence. It is keeping that flame of love alive both in days with your beloved and in days of waiting while he or she is gone.
Love is in life, but it isn’t fearful of death. Love is in health, but it isn’t weakened by sickness. Love is in wealth, but it isn’t conquered by poverty.
For love is beyond death or sickness or poverty. Love has health and wealth and life of it’s own. It endures everything and triumphs always in the end. In truth, if love be true, there really is no end. Only times of waiting and of silence, until it comes and revives us all again.
“O my God, I ask Thee for myself and for those whom I hold dear, the grace to… accept for love of Thee the joys and sorrows of this passing life, so that we may one day be united together in Heaven, for all eternity.” – St. Therese of Lisieux
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"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.
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