[Faith-talk] FW: [reachingouttoothersgroup] Love Is Forever

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: Judith Kasten <kastenjudith3 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [reachingouttoothersgroup] Love Is Forever
Date: 
Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:21:49 -0400

I watched him look into the window and check his reflection.  He
carefully
combed his hair and straightened his tie.  He had to be seventy years
old,
yet he acted as eager as a schoolboy.  He was a regular visitor to the
nursing home.  He was meeting his wife, a victim of Alzheimer's disease.
His wife never spoke much.  But it didn't seem to matter to him that he
got
no response from his wife.  He made cheery conversation, read letters
from
family, sang to her, fed her or just held her hand.
Love, a rare commitment to care for another regardless of the response.
Christ took human form to give us that love-at the cross.  Mr Lacy is
pitied
but a privelaged man, who loves his wife in such a way that the world may
look on with a deep sense of longing.  He paints a beautiful picture for
the
rest of us to see and enjoy what Christ's love for us looks like.

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