“The measure of love is to love without measure.”
— St. Francis de Sales
Our second child came into the world a few days ago, and I recall a conversation I had with a good friend of mine (also a dad) about how it would be possible to love the next kid as much as the first.
But, we very quickly came to the conclusion that we will.
There is no question about it, we would equally love our children and the mothers of our children, and as such, I do think that we found the only inexhaustible resource:
Love
There is no real limitation to the love that we have, and the heart seems to grow as we find new ways and more people to love. Love does not divide - it multiplies.
We can fit all of the universe within the heart.
When we love, we start to see that there is infinitely more that we can love - the more that we love, the more that we find we love. The world gets brighter, colors seem more magnificient, and we get a glimpse of the infinite Himself. A pastor friend mentioned that when we become fathers, we start to see the Love of the Father, that this Love is directed at each and every person that has ever existed.
I remember breaking down into tears when I realized that “all I had to do” was Love everyone as much as my child - and how tremendously difficult that proposition was: to love each person in front of me infinitely. Not just “humanity” or the abstract, but to see each and every soul for what and who it is.
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
- CS Lewis
Love is expansionary in the real sense - while we have tried to expand empires and economies, it has always been the immaterial that could reach out and touch every being.
Love is the only way that it is possible to transcend time and space.
It is how we can reach out and touch all.
Love is how we can live forever.
As always, God bless, and until next time.
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