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Saturday, June 10, 2006
love hurts!
Found this from the daily bread Jie lent me. Shared it during cell and with Jie too. =)
LOVE HURTS!"Sometimes love sure hurts!" The mother and father were expressing the difficulties and heartaches of guiding their children through their teen years. "Maybe if we didn't love them quite so much it wouldn't be so hard," the man added.
Even though love brings pain and sorrow, what would life be without it? In his book
The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis wrote:
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around hobbies and with little luxuries; avoiding all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your own selfishness... The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers... of love is hell."
To love is to take risks, to expose our hearts. Sometimes it hurts! It hurts Jesus Christ, but e kept on loving--even at the cost of His life. And He asked us to "love one another as I have loved you" (John 15:12).
Truly loving that spouse, that teenager, that neighbour, that colleague is Christlike, and it's better than locking your heart in the coffin of self-centredness. --Dave Egner
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THINKING IT OVER
How have You been hurt by those you've tried to love?
Have you been tempted to withhold your love from them as a result?
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Nothing cost as much as loving--
except not loving.
Ruth-Skunk || 12:38 am
