Holy Week reminder, dwell on love, not loss WashTimesOpEd
Near the beginning of his halftime pep talk to his team in “Any Given Sunday,” the character played by Al Pacino offers the following bit of wisdom to his charges: “You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff.”
Resist that path. In his “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” the great Romantic poet William Wordsworth expressed both the longing for what was and the need to keep going. “Though nothing can bring back the hour of glory in the flower/of splendor in the grass/we will grieve not/rather find strength in what remains behind.”
Fretting about the amount of time we have with those we love is pointless. Worrying about how and when they will leave is pointless. The best thing we can do is to love whoever God has put in our path for as long as they remain with us. Treat those you love and those in your care as well as you can every day, and always be armed with the knowledge that the time with all of them is fleeting.
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