Article March 7, 1994 Issue

A new love—a true love

When things look bleak, a better understanding of divine Love can show us light.

Rebecca Van Meter

Have you waited with bated breath to hear those three little words "I love you" coming from a sweetheart, a child, grandchild, parent, friend? Or have you experienced the loss of close ties that were once thought to be eternal?

Doubt and frustration may dim the rainbow hues of love when it is based solely on physical attractiveness, family ties, or human loyalty. How often love based on human underpinnings does not remain permanently true!

A New Testament writer affirms, "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him" (I John 4:16). Do we see a key here to finding love that is perpetual in its loyalty, that is true and pure? Might not this message from St. John tell us that abiding in God, we are abiding in all the love we could ever desire? Remaining consciously aware that God is Love furnishes the human heart with comfort. The Psalmist assures us, "O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him" (Ps. 34:8).

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