Prodigal: I am plum tired.

Me: Me too, but we can still love.

Love is not just looking at each other and saying, “You’re wonderful.” There are times when we are anything but wonderful….

Love is looking outward together in the same direction. It is linking our strength to pull a common load. It is pushing together towards the far horizons, hand in hand.

Love is knowing that when our strength falters, we can borrow the strength of someone who cares.

Love is a strange awareness that our sorrows will be shared and made lighter by sharing; that joys will be enriched and multiplied by the joy of another.

Love is knowing someone else cares, that we are not alone in life.

Love is God, for God is love. When we love, we touch the hem of the garment of God.

Patrick Scanlon

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

JOHN 1 : 1

Jennifer Van Allen

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