The last few months I have been thinking how rich my life is with such beautiful friends. Life and what it is worth is not found in money or possessions but in love. As the musical Rent proclaims, “measure life in love.”
Such thoughts have brought to mind those people in my own life who have seen both my great weaknesses and times I have been deeply broken as well as the times I shine. But perhaps it is in my brokenness when I shine. Perhaps it is those times that make them love us more deeply. Parts of me thinks of those relationships and wonders what they must think after seeing me in places like that. Having gone through those depths, some of these friends tend to be the quiet rivers of love I can feel but not name. They are the rocks I stand on but cannot see. Maybe they are like God, after all. Maybe our richest relationships have a sense of the mysterious about them that we cannot name and cannot see but whatever it is supports us and brings warmth to our hearts.
Perhaps the deepest depths of love is a Divine glow connecting souls, a depth only reached when we have descended into the murky mud and come up with what is truly precious in our hands.
365-09 #317