Love finds us.
A person can love all they want with fidelity and steadiness, and yet, still not sink into the full warmth of love’s embrace. Like an actor playing a part for no one watching or a poet writing words that are not being read, love only leaving you and not returning lacks the fullness of its experience and intention. I was loved once for no other reason than her choosing, and it unlocked places within my heart that I had never known were even there, or locked, for that matter. Love finds us.
My face could not adjust from the smile stubbornly remaining. My hands full of the weight of a life so perfectly given. My heart leaped and collapsed and grew stronger and clearer the moment I held each of my new born daughters for the first time. All three experiences were very different and unique, fitting for their beautiful arrivals into the world and our lives. I loved them before I knew them. And now, their lives respond to my love given. Much like a well watered plant, they grow healthily. Love finds us.
Love both given and received, by us and to us, is but a hint, a whisper telling and revealing the basis of life, humanity and all that we know: love. Time begun. Life created. Sin interrupted. Love redeeming.
I am thankful for having every reason to love, but for being loved also.
Love finds us.
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.
This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
~ Brennan Manning
This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
~ Brennan Manning
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