Reflections

God never intended to lower His expectation, He merely wants to start where His people were. And it's always not easy to decide where your people are. That requires great understanding of how He works! If we cannot identify where He places His likes, and where He expressed His dislikes, how on earth are we then supposed to know where our people stand?

I promised someone to post this: "Love Hurts!", but I've forgotten who I made this promise to... Hah, maybe you can kindly remind me?! Hmm, nice passage I read this week. And why it touches me is because it's just SO TRUE.

Sometimes love sure hurts! The parents who are expressing their difficulties and heartaches of their children through their teen years says, 'Maybe if we didn't want to love them quite so much it wouldn't be that hard.' Even though love brings pain and sorrow, what would be life without it? To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be possibly be broken. If you want to make aure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; aviod all entanglements; lock it up in the casket or coffin of your selfishness... The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all dangers... of all, love is Hell.

To love is to take risk, to expose our hearts. Sometimes it hurts! It hurt Jesus Christ, but He 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) Have you been hurt by those you've tried to love? Have you been tempted to withold your love from them as a result?

Love origins from Him, He is love.