Your touch is Christ’s touch. When you love someone, unless that someone actively rejects your love and forgiveness, she or he is sustained in salvation. And this is true even beyond death. If someone close to you dies in a state which, externally at least, has her or him at odds ecclesially and morally with the visible church, your love and forgiveness will continue to bind that person to the Body of Christ and continue to forgive that individual, even after death.
Hoo boy. This is going to cause people problems... I can't go so far as beyond death. But I love the idea that my willingness to love and forgive someone keeps them connected to the "hem of his garment..."
