“Love never ends..." (1Corinthians 13:8).
Life plays a dirty trick on us as we age: The verbal skills we relied on, the knowledge we spent a lifetime acquiring, the facts and figures we once could retrieve on demand—all these skills and acquisitions begin to fade away. "I don’t remember" becomes our response to most questions, the answers to which we knew just a short time ago.
We become dull, inarticulate, fumbling for words to express the tangle of thoughts in our minds. We reach for a fact or a memory, but it flits away and perches just beyond our reach. We're tongue-tied in the present of bright young minds. We feel that our treasured role with family and friends has come to an end.
But love never ends. We may not be able to dazzle our friends with our breadth of knowledge and witty repartee, but we can show a sincere interest in the things they’re interested in. We can ask a question and we can listen. And then we can ask another question and listen some more. We can show others that we care.
“Love never ends,” or so it is written—the one thing we’ll be doing forever. Why not get started right now?
David Roper
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