There is something transcendent is us: a desire for a Perfect Love. All of us hope to find in our spouse or friend or parent or brother or sister or pastor a person who can love us perfectly. We soon find out that these people are just as human as we are! They are not perfect and do not love perfectly.
But why do we seek a Perfect Love? Why does literature place so much value on finding a perfect love.
Consider such classics as Great Expectations by Dickens: Pip's desire to marry Precilla who so far from being perfect. But in the end, the last line of the last page of this novel reads: "An I saw no shadow of separation from her again."
Consider Heathcliff and Cathy, Romeo and Juliet, Mr. Knightly and Emma, Joseph and Mary, John Wayne and Maureen Ohara (Quiet Man), Sam (Tom Hanks) and Annie..... What are all these couples trying to teach us? That the Human Spirit seeks a true love..a Perfect Love.
Will we ever find a Perfect Love. Those who found it in this world are those who GAVE it! Mother Teresa of Calcutta, St./Fr. Damien of Molkai, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Clare who gave up Francis to love Christ, St. Thomas More, St. Steven the first martyr, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Catherine, St. Therese of Lisieux. They found a true and perfect Love loving Jesus Christ Who had a Perfect Love for us on the Cross.
In this Universe there are so many perfect Constants/laws of Physics. But no Physicists has ever been able to put in a mathematical formula the intrinsic desire in humans for a Perfect Love.
Maybe because this desire is a mere reflection in us of the Most Perfect Eternal Love: God.
Maybe we were meant to have this Perfect Eternal Love in heaven - and be drawn into the Perfect Love in the Most Holy Trinity...forever!
Peace and love,
Pio
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