What love looks like

Published 3:19 pm Wednesday, July 30, 2025

One of the best things I’ve seen this week is a love story circulating on social media. We’re not talking romance, flower bouquets or surprise proposals, we’re talking about a brief observation that, as James Finley describes, is the ‘sacredness found in every day moments’—when we are ‘vulnerable and open to the divine.’

Finley gives examples of our unexpected arrival at divine intersections as being as simple as witnessing a child’s laugh, a murmuration of starlings, a glorious sunrise… those momentary diversions in which we are truly ‘in the moment.’  For me, it was something that I did not personally observe, but upon reading the account, imagined every gleeful shout of laughter, and even felt the affection flow through the printed words on my screen.

You’ve been very patient, gentle reader, and so I will share with you this brief episode of pure joy:

Each day, as the mail carrier who serves a certain neighborhood begins making his way slowly down a particular street, a young girl pushing a baby stroller awaits him at the top of her driveway. Upon approach, the girl begins running, and sitting inside the stroller is an elderly, arthritic pug, sitting up and barking his head off, as laughing and shouting, they ‘chase’ the mailman down the street.

The mailman, it should be said, is very much in on the game.

Every day they do this. Every, single day.

Just in case you forgot, what love looks like.