Love Abides is a novel by Annex Thekkekara an odyssey of life moving from being to becoming. In the spin of the spinning seasons of life, with spring and summer gone by in love forlorn, the fall in my life lay me scattered and strewn, and I wait with endurance in bitter winter's eve digging my roots into the depths of the earth to be fed from the deeps with the living waters to let new shoots spring up and grow anew. While I hold on to the inevitably irretrievable past that binds and embroils me in the dark shadows of my life, the inffable spirit in the cosmic whole, rooted in me, moves me to be in the still moments of transient life and reach the zenith of my life in peace to be happily alive ever after.