“Fall in Love, and you will not leave him”
And what is the secret of perseverance? Love. Fall in Love, and you will not leave him. (The Way, 999)
That passage of the Second Epistle to Timothy makes me shudder, when the Apostle laments that Demas has fallen in love with this present world and gone to Thessalonica. For a trifle, and for fear of persecution, this man, whom Saint Paul had quoted in other epistles as being among the saints, had betrayed the divine enterprise. I shudder when I realize how little I am: and it leads me …