Love Lived to the Fullest
So many of us live our lives as if there is still so much time to love. I sometimes find myself pretending that death has no purchase on my world. Sometimes I write obscure scholarly articles as if I had forever. What will many of our accomplishments mean in that end-time? What will define our stay in the cosmos? I would argue that it is this: how deeply, how fully, how broadly have we loved.
With what time is left to us, we are called to settle for nothing less than a passionate love affair with God and with life, embracing God and the creation through which God shimmers, living madly in the reality that this universe is not purposeless, but that we are called toward the drama and pain of life and love lived to the fullest.
David M. Carr
The Erotic Word, pages 176-178
