You might be afraid of the pain that deep love can cause. When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. The pain that comes from deep love makes your love ever more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root and grow into a strong plant. Every time you experience the pain of rejection, absence, or death, you are faced with a choice. You can become bitter and decide not to love again, or you can stand straight in your pain and let the soil on which you stand become richer and more able to give life to new seeds."
-Henri Nouwen, "The Inner Voice of Love"
Love Deeply.
I think that it is so easy to forget how much God loves us. We get so caught up in the everyday hustle and bustle that we never take time to slow down, and meditate on the one thing that really matters to us, and that's the love of God. Without His love, you and I, we would be nothing. It is so important to remember that we are here for a greater reason, and that reason is to glorify God and to do that we have to love like He loves us. Agape love. Loving the unlovely.
As I grow in my relationship with the Lord, I want to learn to not only love like He loves, but love and to love deeply.
"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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