"provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old" --Luke 12:33

In all things, we must love the incarnate soul that is the other. A body can grow old. A habit can grow old. Expressions can grow old. But the soul of a person, so intimately expressed through the body--this can NEVER grow old. The mystery of each person is so deep, one can never claim to truly know and understand the other. A person can never get old, may never be discarded but only loved ever more as their mystery unfolds. When a man or woman enters a relationship based on his/her physical attraction to the other, the other will get used, used up, and discarded. The physical is finite, and cannot sustain a relationship. But when a relationship is entered because the man and woman have entered the mystery of the soul of the other, then there is infinity to discover! This is the purse that never grows old and sustains a lifelong relationship.