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title: 'I feel that I must protect you and your family . . . regardless of whether you want me to or not. Love is s strange thing. I don''t pretend to understand it.'
slug: 'i-feel-that-i-must-protect-you-and-your-family-regardless-of-whether-you-want-me'
date: 2022-08-05
type: 'post'
status: 'published'
tags: ['faith', 'constant-contact-archive']
abstract: 'Thomas Merton . . . “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.”– Thomas Merton'
license: 'CC-BY-4.0'
author: 'Jed Anderson'
co_authors: []
canonical_url: 'https://jedanderson.org/posts/i-feel-that-i-must-protect-you-and-your-family-regardless-of-whether-you-want-me'
original_source: 'Constant Contact campaign'
supporting_files: []
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Thomas Merton . . . “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.”– Thomas Merton