Charlotte Elia offers a reflection on Romans 8:31-39 for All Souls’ Day.
“Love can reach across any obstacle, real or imagined, present or future, anything in life and even the chasm of death. You know ‘Till death do us part?’ That’s a legal boundary, not a Christian one. We love each other beyond death, through death, in spite of death. On this All Souls’ Day we remember that our God turns even ghost stories into love stories, that although our bodies may die, love remains, love lives on. Love can reach across any obstacle and join us to God and to one other, and love will reach across every obstacle until the perfection of an age when we will see that love shine perfectly in the face of God and in the face of each other in the heavenly kingdom to come.”