“Let my love open the door.. let my love open the door

Let my love open the door-To your heart….”

Joseph Campbell said of marriage

That it is an ordeal

Because it means yeilding – time and time again

And this is why it is a sacrament ( a ritual toward grace)

“You give up personal simplicity

To participate in a relationship”

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In several of the older couples I know.

One of the two- is failing cognitively

(While the other has something going on with their body)

This is wildly uncharted territory-

Demanding a kind of acceptance and a lettng go…

These folks are our unsung heros-our saints….

But it’s impossible situations- like these

That change us into diamonds.

There is grieving too-

These changes in our partners

But perhaps it is grace itself that opens again

The reluctant ” door to your heart ”

Squeak.

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