Acts of Service

by Lillian Fishman

We were taught to value love yet not to rely on it too heavily, because the world of excessive freedom in which we had been made would not foster the long-suffering loyalty that love required.

They said what I believed and knew to be true, but they ignored our reality: that women were valuable only until their bodies expired, that women who gave themselves only to each other relinquished this value altogether.

The only chance we’ll ever get to touch the face of heaven.