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A prayer for all who love
This morning I watched live video coverage of the rescue of the tenth Chilean miner, Alex Vega. He emerged from the rescue capsule and made the sign of the cross. Seconds later, he and his wife embraced. The two gestures were powerful and deeply symbolic. To me, they reflected the intimate connection between love and the cross.
A police officer tries to reach a child’s balloon in “Camp Hope,” where miners’ families have slept in tents and campers during the rescue operation. Associated Press photo.
The gestures remind me that Jesus took up the cross not just at the end of his life. He took it up every day because he loved people. Out of this love, he chose to help others—people who were poor and sick; people who were social outcasts; people of wealth and power who were in need of transformation. His choice to act out of love often brought suffering into his own life. To me, it wasn’t the suffering that made his cross meaningful. It was the love.
When I watch the miners and their families being reunited, I think about how love places a claim on us. Love can compel people to choose dangerous jobs in order to provide for loved ones. Love means living with the possibility that those who are most dear to us may not return at the end of the day. I think that love brings risk, but even more than that, it brings meaning and hope to life. So today, as the rescue continues, the word that will be my constant prayer for the miners, their families, and the rescue teams is “love.”
Please join me by offering your word of prayer for the miners, their families, and the rescue teams.
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watching the rescue has been a moving experience. i pray that the love shown today endures as the men and their families adjust to life as it is after the trama.
sr. maxine, you are so right. love is a risk, but the hope of it outweighs any heartache. how true the saying, “better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
may we all take a risk in loving someone today.
That’s a great point, Marla. Love is a risk that’s well worth taking!