Salvation through Love and in Love

by Letters Editor · August 27, 2015

From Roy Glover, Tzaneen

I have been reading a very interesting book entitled Man�s Search for Meaning by Dr Viktor Frankl who spent three years in various Nazi concentration camps with the ever-present threat of being sent to the gas chambers.

What is remarkable about Dr Frankl�s book is the way he came to realise the greatest truth of all. I find it such a tragedy that so few of us have discovered the truth as he did.

Dr Frankl writes: �A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth � that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

�Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart. The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment.�

I found Dr Frankl�s comments fascinating because of the way he discovered the greatest gift our Lord gave us: the gift of love. If only we could all realise what an incredible gift this is and use it to its full, what a wonderful world this would be.

We live in what could be very near to paradise, if we did but realise the truth in what Dr Frankl discovered and put it into practice in our daily lives.