God is the silent Power behind all things,
always ready to pur int our experience that which we need.
God works for us by working through us as us.
~ TEACHING OF THE MYSTIC by Ruth Lambek
When we're old, our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.