Many years ago, I met Alice, a Filipina teacher in Brunei.
She was my host and took care of me while I was there. When I woke up early one morning, I noticed that she was on the phone. But she wasn’t speaking.
She explained that it was her beautiful ritual of love to her husband.
Years ago, her husband suffered a stroke, and he became paralyzed. So she went to Brunei to work for the family.
And what was this ritual of love?
Alice would wake up at four in the morning to call her husband. (This was before the days of cell phones and text messages.) But
because they could not afford overseas calls, they agreed that the husband would not answer the phone.
Instead, the husband would allow the phone to ring.
And ring.
And ring.
He would allow the love of Alice, symbolized by the ringing, to fill their house and to fill his heart.
For eight years straight, Alice did this beautiful ritual without fail.
Until he passed away.
That’s what love is.
Not feelings that come and go. Not moods that are here today and gone tomorrow.
Love is simply done, day in and day out.
Because it’s eternal. Constant. Faithful.
It was Mother Teresa who said, “Service is a fruit of love.”
If you love, you will serve.
Go now and, like Mother Teresa, dirty your hands.
You don’t have to do anything big or heroic.
The simplest expressions of service can speak the loudest.
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