George Eliot wrote in the novel Adam Bede:

What greater thing is there for two human souls,
than to feel that they are joined for life —
to strengthen each other in all labor,
to rest on each other in all sorrow,
to minister to each other in all pain,
to be one with each other
in silent unspeakable memories . . .

In those beautiful words is a question. “What greater thing is there?”

I think I might have an answer. It is when those two souls are joined together in the bond of Jesus Christ. It is there, and only there, where the power, joy, grace, peace, and exhilaration of that unbreakable union soars among the highest places and slogs through the muddiest swamps. Together. Always.

To my Valentine, Lisa.

Steve