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Forsaken By Love

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“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” – Matthew 27:46, WEB

Love is happiness, yet it is also sorrow. Love is fullness, yet it is also being empty. Love is light, yet it is also darkness.

For no one loves for good times only, but loves the more when bad times come. No one loves to receive only, but shows one’s love is true by giving one’s all.

The one who knows how to love has fully lived, and because one lives, one is prepared even to die. For love is an offering not only of what one has. It is a complete surrender of the self, reserving nothing, holding nothing back.

It is in being consumed to the very end that love proves its true power, a power that conquers all pain and all darkness, rising yet again for it can never truly die.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning… Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully… And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. – Kahlil Gibran

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