Instead of requiring perfect adherence to the law, the true God extends unmerited exchanges of love and forgiveness.
It robs us of the present, precious moment and leaves important exchanges of love, forgiveness, and truth locked within us; exchanges that could heal at least the wounds of the heart and spirit.
But in a quixotic attempt to be more specific about this ineffable experience, I would say: to truly cherish another person, wants and all, is to be the face of God; and to exchange that manner of loving deeply and involuntarily with another person is to be as close to the divine as we can get – short of becoming an accomplished mystic.
No tension, just heartfelt exchange, a communion of loving Souls.
For him, there simply could be no sexual consummation without the moral exchange of love.
In 2009 he published a novel, Fragments d'une femme perdue ("Fragments of a Lost Woman"), consisting of an exchange of love letters.
On the Guardian blog last week, David Barnett wrote about finding an exchange of love letters tucked into the pages of a secondhand Asimov book he bought at a local fair.
Institutions — even the best and most humane — by their nature warp the attachments children long for, the visceral and concentrated exchange of love, tough and otherwise, that comforts, supports and shapes a child's heart and mind.
It is a true exchange of love.
"In the images in which the church have seen provocation, I see an exchange of love, a type of public worship that creates harmony not contrast," he said.
