Love, Let Us Be True To One Another

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

     --from "Dover Beach," by Matthew Arnold

That is the Kingdom of God. Being true to love in world that looks, on the outside, so shiny and bright but is revealed to be a place without joy, love, light, certitude, peace or help for pain.

Let us be true to love in this dark world where ignorant armies clash by night.