Real Crime

Never being loved is a crime against human nature.  We all need to be loved.  That starts with our parents, but many children don't get that love. 

We all seek someone to love us and return the love we have for them.  For those who never are loved the psychological damage is severe and is a reason for all sorts of bad and even criminal behavior.  

Sure, God loves us, but we all need the touch of a human hand and kisses from warm and soft mouths that yearn for us.  Nothing is better for the soul than warm and loving embraces.  Many of us lack that closeness, and we are sad.  

The loss of loved spouses is especially tragic for many reasons, and none greater than the loss of those loving touches.  For those of us who have suffered that loss, let’s remember what the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) said in his poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.:” 

I hold it true, whate'er befall; 

I feel it, when I sorrow most;

'Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.

Deacon David Pierce