"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
"It is probably impossible to love any human being simply too much. We may love him too much in proportion to our love for God; but it is the smallness of our love for God, not the greatness of our love for the man, that constitutes the inordinacy."
-from The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
This should apply to all our relationships, to God, to friends, to enemies, to strangers, to family, and more.
Reaction....?
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To love our enemies... yeesh that's hard. I mean, I don't have any enemies ( at least, I really hope not! getting along with people is fun) but there's always those one or two people that you really don't like. At the same time, the one or two people I'm thinking of right now have probably gone thru some stuff to make them the way they are, (and I don't really talk to them often, so I'm pretty much being a judgmental jerk that's basing her opinions off of just the little bits and pieces she's seen), so I guess they seriously lack love in their lives and need it, so I need to work on that... and loving strangers is kinda hard too because you don't know them. But I guess if God loves them, that's reason enough for the rest of us to love strangers too.
- ryan
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