Love and Longing

Abstract

In the Fall we are broken, but with Love we find the promise of healing. This is the message of the gospels, but many of us have experienced this quite outside of any religious context; we simply come into the presence of love bareheaded with all our wounds apparent. When I fell in love with my husband, I had at the time no religious affiliation, and yet what I profoundly felt was that we were one soul that God had cut apart, a little off center perhaps, creating a bigger and a smaller half. Now, it seemed, we would reunite the parts and all my scars would disappear.