We have the capacity to heal this earth of its divisions, its wars, its violence, and its hatreds. This capacity is the love within us to suffer with another and to love the other without reward. Love that transcends the ego is love that heals. When we lose ourselves for the sake of love, we shall find ourselves capable of real love. -- Franciscan scholar Ilia Delio
I believe this is the love I felt...still feel...for Jim McG, a fellowship friend...it was pure, honest, unexpectant and a delight.
Jim died recently, and he is still sharing life lessons, or love, with me.
He was young...60ish...military, and one did not know immediately if he was a private or a colonel. He loved his wife, his family...the whole fam-damily...the Chicago Cubs (and when they won the World Series, he all but held a parade of one right down the middle of his world), his cabin in the woods, and most anyone he came into contact with.
Jim was a shining light in my world, and I never told him...never entered my mind until after he was dead and gone. I regretted that until God (or Jim) let me see how that love I did not know I had is growing still...and stronger.
I am made "wholer" by my too-brief contact with Jim McG. I pass it on.
Thank you.
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