Perfectly Imperfect

 "We come to love - not by finding a perfect person, 

    but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

 ~Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved

Prescription: Never Grow Old

 "Those who love deeply never grow old;

they may die of old age, but they die young."

~Benjamin Franklin

Dying of old age - yet dying with youthfulness, O Lord... let me love deeply that renews me daily.

What is grander?

 Victor Hugo, seems to really "get" love.  Of his many quotes, I think this one hits the target:

"What a grand thing to be loved!

What a grander thing still, to love!"

Be grand!  Be grander still!  Love on!

Love = Reality

 I read that "love and love alone is the substance of reality."

Consider that for a moment:  The only real thing is love.  Everything else is subterfuge.  Everything else is meaningless, smoke, vapor, mist. 

The only thing that matters.

The only things that last.

The only thing that means anything.

Let that sink in.  Let that be your reality.

Love is the Reason, the Means, the End

 "Everything we do, we do for a reason, but only love is its own reason."

~St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Love is ground of Beauty

 "Love ... lays the ground of beauty.

There is nothing more beautiful than love, and 

everything beautiful is already love in a form hidden or revealed."

~Brother Paul Quenon

(p. 25, How Beauty Will Save the World" by Winfield Bevins

Love is the Lesson

 

"Love is the lesson, and God’s love is so great that God will finally teach it to all of us."

    Richard Rohr says this on a devotion.  Ponder how "Love is the Lesson" and how God is teaching it.  

    How is He teaching you?  Where are you failing to learn the lesson, t

     hat LOVE IS THE GREATEST OF ALL. 

(CAC Daily Meditations, March 6, 2026)