“Love is affection that endures and enriches in spite of differences. The differences between two people, even the difficulties, help with the enriching too . . . if they work to overcome the latter.”
– Marvin Swanson
For this week celebrating love between spouses, between partners, among friends, and with family members, I share Marvin’s definition of love.
Love abides, though sometimes it goes into hibernation. Then the sound of a voice, a memory, an object, a passage from a book wakens it, and you know it has been there all the time. Sometimes a crisis awakens it. Sometimes standing on a peak of suffering before a cliff, it not only awakens but overwhelms you. It is the kind of love that transcends the love of a person for a person and embraces all.
-Marvin Swanson
The Bridge 