Love

We are told in the Christian Scriptures that God is love. John puts it beautifully in his letter:

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Jn 47:7-8

Love is such a complex word. We use it in so many situations but surely it’s true meaning is bound up in that sense that goes to the very core of our being, rather than an immediate fancy or enjoyment. As many will affirm, there is an infinite capacity within the human person, should they choose to tap into this, to love deeper and deeper, even to an unfathomable and seemingly infinite point within.

Just as we can love without a depth of reason, so too can our hearts break with unfathomable and indescribable pain. Perhaps it is to safeguard ourselves that we shy away from that sort of love. For those brave warriors who climb to the zenith of love only to plunge into the abyss of pain, we admire you. Many fear to do what you have done, to love so deeply and without reserve. We need such warriors in our world or we will slowly trudge towards complacency and a shallow breath of life, rather than inhaling deep into our lungs the tingling sensation of fresh oxygen.

To every true warrior out there – I salute you. May you smile the breadth of the world again.