Can Single People Love Deeply, Too?
“Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion.” ? Fulton J. Sheen The problem with the single life is that no matter what you do, it will always seem insignificant. Even if you love, that love will always seem little as compared with what other people give. For how can one ever match the love that parents give to their children or the devotion spouses render to the other? Even one’s love for God may fail to measure up once compared to the love of priests, nuns and other people consecrated to God. But can a single person not love deeply, too? Is the love for one’s mother or sister or friend not among the kind that should be given due worth? Is love for God deep only if consecrated through a religious life? I have been told that God loves little children. They are precious in His eyes even if they can’t accomplish something big, even if all they could do is give thanks for all the blessings they have been given and sit upon Jesus’ lap as they gaze ...