MADELEINE L’ENGLE
In her book, Circle Of Quiet, Madeleine L’Engle offers this reflection on love, “Love can’t be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can’t be proved any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hugh Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: ‘Love is not an emotion. It is a policy.’ In L’Engle’s book Walking On Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, she tells this story. On this occasion she was talking with her friend and spiritual director, Canon Tallis, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York City. She wrote: “I was deeply grieved about something and I kept telling how woefully I had failed someone I loved, failed totally, otherwise that person couldn’t have done the wrong that was so destructive.” After some time Canon Tallis, looked at her and said, “Who are you to think you are better than…
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