You are worthy to be loved
The problem of choosing to love again is that the choice to love means living under the constant threat of further loss. but the problem of choosing not to love is that the choice to turn from love means imperiling to the soul; for the soul thrives in an environment of love.
Soul-full people love; soul-less people do not. If people want their souls to grow through loss, whatever the loss is, they must eventually decide to love even more deeply than they did before, they must respond to the loss by embracing love with renewed faith and commitment.
There is an ominous dimension to love, especially after a loss.
If loss increases our capacity for love, then an increased capacity for love will only make us feel greater sorrow when suffering strikes again, there is no simple solution to this dilemma.
Choosing to withdraw from people and to protect the self diminishes the soul; choosing to love even more deeply than before puts us at risk of getting hurt, for the choice to love requires the courage to grieve. We know that loss is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience. So naturally, we dread the losses that loom ahead, but the greater loss is not suffering another loss itself but refusing to love again, for that may lead to a hardened heart and the death of the soul.
It takes tremendous courage to love when we are broken, yet I wonder if love becomes more authentic when it grows out of brokenness. Brokenness directs us to find a source of love outside ourselves. That source is God, whose essential nature is love. I believe brokenness and love can come together, and there is beauty in ruin.
Yet the grief I feel is sweet as well as bitter. I still feel sorrowful at times in the morning as I wake. Never have I felt such pain, yet never have I experienced the joy in simply being alive and living a life with Him. In Him, I am whole. I am more than a conqueror. In Him, I can be strong and courageous, and I am loved.
Loss has indeed stretched my capacity to love. Reminding myself again that my hope is in Him, the One I trust and will never fail me. The one who knows best and loves me still.
Thank you, Jesus. For coming to give me life, a life to the fullest, and that means choosing love knowing that you first loved me. And that even in the midst of pain, I can trust in You and your heart for me.
Thank you.
Soul-full people love; soul-less people do not. If people want their souls to grow through loss, whatever the loss is, they must eventually decide to love even more deeply than they did before, they must respond to the loss by embracing love with renewed faith and commitment.
There is an ominous dimension to love, especially after a loss.
If loss increases our capacity for love, then an increased capacity for love will only make us feel greater sorrow when suffering strikes again, there is no simple solution to this dilemma.
Choosing to withdraw from people and to protect the self diminishes the soul; choosing to love even more deeply than before puts us at risk of getting hurt, for the choice to love requires the courage to grieve. We know that loss is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience. So naturally, we dread the losses that loom ahead, but the greater loss is not suffering another loss itself but refusing to love again, for that may lead to a hardened heart and the death of the soul.
It takes tremendous courage to love when we are broken, yet I wonder if love becomes more authentic when it grows out of brokenness. Brokenness directs us to find a source of love outside ourselves. That source is God, whose essential nature is love. I believe brokenness and love can come together, and there is beauty in ruin.
Yet the grief I feel is sweet as well as bitter. I still feel sorrowful at times in the morning as I wake. Never have I felt such pain, yet never have I experienced the joy in simply being alive and living a life with Him. In Him, I am whole. I am more than a conqueror. In Him, I can be strong and courageous, and I am loved.
Loss has indeed stretched my capacity to love. Reminding myself again that my hope is in Him, the One I trust and will never fail me. The one who knows best and loves me still.
Thank you, Jesus. For coming to give me life, a life to the fullest, and that means choosing love knowing that you first loved me. And that even in the midst of pain, I can trust in You and your heart for me.
Thank you.
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