Your love for each other comes from God’s first love. Keep claiming that love. Your love for each other is a forgiving love. Keep talking to each other, pardoning each other’s shortcomings, and praising each other’s gifts. Your love for each other is for others, your children, your guests, the poor. Keep your attention focused on those who need to be nurtured by your love.Henri J.M. Nouwen Sabbatical Journey (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2013)Loving and tender providence of my God, into your hands I commend my spirit; to you I abandon my hopes and fears, my desires and dislikes, my temporal and eternal prospects. To you I commit the wants of my perishable body; to you I commit the more precious interests of my immortal soul, for whose lot I have nothing to fear as long as I