Stronger Than Death by Jill Carattini

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Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
its jealousy as enduring as the grave.
Love flashes like fire,
the brightest kind of flame.
(Song of Songs 8:6)

A Slice of Infinity Snippets:
G.K. Chesterton once noted that people who are in love have a natural inclination to bind themselves by promises. One only has to listen to a few love songs to see this truth in human nature; we find a constant flow of promising and vowing.

Love and passion impel us to place such a seal upon our hearts, to bind ourselves to one another. The sheer fierceness of its nature calls for careful boundaries. Yet this is not a verdict meant to be followed simply because it is a good thing to do, a moral virtue we ought to follow. Like Christianity itself, it is good because it is true: Love is indeed as strong as death. Like all of the deepest questions of life, love is something to be reckoned with. “For where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away,” says Paul. But love never fails.

There is no place where this has been exemplified more clearly than in the love of the Trinity and in the extension of that love to you and me--from the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit. In fact, the love of God is so perfect and we are in such need of it that the cry of the human heart will not fall silent until it has found that for which it ultimately searches. In the same place where the lingering questions of the meaning of life and the fierceness of the grave are answered coherently, love is exemplified and found fulfilling. The remedy is comprehensive, and it is in the hands of God.


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