Is there anything better?
My fiancé and I have been engaged for about four months and we are thrilled! We’ve both seen the fruits of the Spirit as we grew in our “dating” relationship (i.e. courtship) and even more as we further prepare to build a life together. While we were dating, we were a two and a half hour car ride away from each other, so visits were only on weekends or holidays. After we got engaged, she moved closer to me. We are now only thirty minutes apart from each other. If we really miss each other or have a bad day, we don’t have to rely on a video call; I jump in my car and we eat some ice cream together.
Is there anything better?
I don’t know… things are prrrrrretty great. But it’s hard to fathom and easy to forget that we have an even greater treasure awaiting us: Holy Matrimony! We will share a home. On lazy weekend mornings, I can make her my signature pancakes (which are basically just regular pancakes, but with approximated 10-zillion chocolate chips). We can put our feet up by the fireplace as the kindling warms us at the end of an autumn week. We can suffer the misfortune of novice cooking… together.
Is there anything better?
No. To my best knowledge, I would say no. In light of my new perspective on Eros, I understand the Sadducees to be asking Christ in today’s Gospel as: “Who will receive the promise for the greatest joy of the human experience?” And He explains how “those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.” But as I read the passage a few more times, the lines that I keep coming back to are: “They can no longer die” and “he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
Love awakens a part of you that no other force can; Love brings you to life. I can’t imagine a greater love than I have with my fiancé. Living and growing in relationship with her, that is what it feels like to be in love, completely alive. In fact, I would be indignant if someone said I would have to be without her. But for as alive as I feel because of our relationship, I know it is only a glimpse, barely a taste of the immersive Love that is promised in heaven. And there is nothing better than that.
Daily Reading
Saturday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Reading Rv 11:4-12 I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me: Here are my two witnesses: These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand…
Saint of the Day
Pope Saint Clement
Saint Clement, early Christian leader and Bishop of Rome, revered by the Petrine faction, distinct from Pauline followers.
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