Love Lives On

"It's been 14 years," he said, "since my daughter died. Yet, among those women who loved her so, I felt her presence."

You may remember the book and movie, "Tuesdays with Morrie." The main character, a beloved professor, is dying of ALS, one muscle at a time, and one of his former students, a cynic, meets with him on Tuesdays to show his affection and to learn from him. The professor, very subtly, is teaching him how to love. Finally, when it is clear that his mentor will die soon, the young man cries out, "What good is it to love? You're just going to die!" To which the professor replies, "Yes. And after I am dead, you will still love me."

The simple truth is that love does not die--cannot be destroyed.

Teilhard de Chardin said it this way:  "Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, and gravity, mankind will harness for God the energy of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire."

You write it:  When have you felt the power of love?