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March 7, 2007
Love Is Stronger Than Death
It is often said that love is stronger than death. Days like yesterday prove it. It was a normal day. Morning started with a ray of sunlight through my window. I staggered to my laptop to turn it on and then threw myself into a shower. Breakfast was made and I ate it while watching a rerun of 24. Work began as soon as the last seconds of the program ticked off and I buried myself deep into the chores of my day until I received a strange text just after 4pm.
“Call me,” was all it said. It was sent through an instant messaging program to my phone and I recognized the email signature as that of an old coworker. I called the office and was surprised not to hear the friendly voice of the usual secretary. But when I got through to my friend, it was then that I knew something was immediately wrong.
You’ve been through this before, I’m sure. You start to talk with someone and you immediately know that something terrible has happened. It’s the tone of the voice that sets you off. But even if you missed the intonation, the downtrodden look upon their face or the tears in their eyes, there is that one sentence that is unmistakable. “I have some bad news,” she says. Then in an instant you know that your life has changed, even without knowing why or how.
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Love is stronger than death. I know it. I can feel it in those moments when everything goes dark and universe wraps closely around me and begins to pull the air from my chest. It’s love that keeps me alive. It’s love that keeps us all alive. But love can also kill us.
Love can’t save us when we step out of a vehicle to help a stranger in need and another car comes careening off the road and strikes us down. This was proven to me yesterday. A good man died trying to help another human being. It was so wrong to hear it yet so easy to understand. It was the way he chose to exist. He quietly lived by example and left footprints that all who wanted to look could see. Now as many people begin to pick up the pieces, we are often forced to ask if love really is stronger than death.
Love is stronger than death. It has to be true love—the
kind of love that this man willing and unintentionally cultivated over the 49
years he spent among us. True love is the kind that stays with us forever. From
it, great things are to be accomplished in the name of those that have passed.
This is what gives me hope the day after I learned of the death of someone who
lived life with character and honor. Great things will come, Captain, from all
those who love you. You’ll now have the best seat in the house to watch
it from and that’s an honor that is certainly worthy of you.
Posted by CupidsReviews Doug at March 7, 2007 2:15 AM
