Avoiding truisms is tricky when writing about love, after all it's been covered in so many ways. I'm aware, over the past few months, how many people struggle with loving and being loved in many different ways.
Fundamentally we all need it and because of that it becomes hard to quantify and reflect on without that reflection becoming trite or devaluing the very thing you want to value most.
The phrase from 1 Corinthians 13 "love bears all things" seems to cover it for me. Love is not about perfection but reality: accepting someone for who they are, not what you want them to be. Continuing to accept when life is messy, full of misunderstandings and mistakes. Continuing to bear not with the person, but to bear the person, to carry them when they can't stand up. To know somehow that whatever happens LOVE Himself will give you the love you need to keep going; and to want nothing other than to do this.
2 comments:
oo you thinker you! lol but seriously i like the way you think :) x
Thank you, scholarly one!
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