There is love - and there is love that is profound.Profound love can endure the stress of real life, and boy, can it be stressful. Profound love isn't mere sentimentality. It is rough and rugged, yet it is still love. It has less to do with good feelings between people and more to do with something so self-sacrificial because it is gained at its richest levels only by giving it away to others.
Love that is profound is hardly passive. It cannot be. Impossible. Passive love is an oxymoron. Profound love motivates one's very will and pushes one to act with urgency - right now - today - sooner than today -- get-up-from-your-chair-this-very-minute-and-do-it kind of love. It hounds you to the farthest limits of your own generosity and beyond.
Love takes its most profound shape when it is given equal priority to strangers beyond the sphere of church life. It becomes again profound when leadership releases control over others and instead equips others to discover new life for themselves.
Love at its most profound involves some pain - even mystery --- the kind that led Jesus unimaginably to the cross. Say it isn't so -- it cannot be possibly true. When we discover love at that kind of profound level, suffering then is filled with brand-new meaning - and once again, love takes us back to Christ where it all began and we are filled with awe at the greatness of God.
Profound.
And be blessed.
3 comments:
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
Very well said. Amen
Yes, Mother Theresa was an amazingly loving woman. I have loved till it hurts several times and once I truly love someone, it never stops. There is a piece of my heart that is theirs forever.
My wish is that I can let more people in. Sometimes, I just let people in "so far" and that is it. She was a beautiful soul.
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