Love Never Is, It Is Only Ever Becoming

Fall has finally come to Georgia! The mornings are crisp and cool and the air smells like a fire. It really makes me miss Connecticut! Its hard to believe that I've been here for over a month now, almost two. So much has happened and I'm learning so much, that its tough even to write it all down in a blog. The days go by fast and the nights even faster, it seems like the alarm goes off only moments after my head hits the pillow.

I think though that everything I am learning can be summed up in a quote that I recently heard from Pope John Paul II. He said, "Love never is, it is only ever becoming." When I first heard it, it was as if my soul exhaled, as though it was saying, "see, the pressures off." Its freeing to know that I can never love perfectly, that I am always learning how to love better, love more fully. It gives me freedom to try and fail, and then to get up and try again, freedom to say, I am imperfect, and that's ok, freedom to ask questions and admit mistakes. Its also a call to keep learning, to keep evolving in my faith and my love, which is pretty wonderful too.