True Love

Day 28.   Of True Love.   Blessed are those who would love their fellows as much as when they are ill and not able to assist, as they would love them when they are well, and are able to assist.   Blessed are they who would love and fear their fellow human, as much when they are from them, as they would when they are with them.   Who would not say anything about them, behind their backs that could not, with charity, be said in their presence?

True love is to love someone at all times no matter where they are or whether they are in sickness or in health.   So, do we love only as long as they are well enough to help us or do we love them no matter what?   Does absence make our heart grow fonder or are they out of sight and out of mind?   Do we take the advantage of their absence to gossip about them? Things we wouldn’t say in their presence?   True love has neither condition nor place loving all completely and fully. There being nothing  ill to say about them whether in their presence or not.