Category: Words of Wisdom

Love Conquers Death

Death is always painful. No matter how peaceful it may be, no matter how heroic. It is never the manner of death nor the length of one’s life that can bring consolation, for love moves always towards immortality, and death brings always an unfitting end to the human soul. A hundred years will always be too short, even a thousand. For no soul can ever be replaced, and death claims a beauty and a magnificence that will always be missed. The departure of one human being from this life will always leave a terrible void. A void so much greater than any black hole in the universe could ever contain.

God knows how terribly the human race suffers from this enemy, from death, that He sent even His One Begotten Son in great mercy and compassion so we can be saved, so we can have life. God Himself suffered death so it may be conquered, so it may lose its grip upon us all. For He made each man according to His own image, with a glory that surpasses all the beauty of the world, of the entire universe. We were never meant to just pass by in this life and perish. We were never meant to live and breathe and love just for all our memories to be extinguished. God meant us for good, for Himself. Death shall never have the last word, for that which shall always last is love.

God didn’t make death;
neither does he delight when the living perish.
For he created all things that they might have being.
The generative powers of the world are wholesome,
and there is no poison of destruction in them…
For righteousness is immortal…
-Wisdom 1, WEBBE

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Hidden Treasures

We do all we can to avoid our crosses, all the problems life sends our way. But someday we will realize… the greatest treasures we can find here are right within the very mess of things, and just amidst all the painful and troubled times we were able to overcome.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. – 2 Corinthians 4, WEBBE

In This Dark Night

We are in the dark night, you and I,
and these are truly troubled times;
yet this is the night I knew you
and this is the night you knew all that’s mine.

In these troubled times,
you saw my weakness and my strength,
and you understood me far better
than on days when the sun was bright.

Yes, in this dark night we became closer,
as we held each other, you and I;
We became allies, we became friends,
as we fought together, side by side.

When the day comes, as it surely will,
I will gather the treasures I’ve found in the night,
in the darkness where I knew how to love,
as we held each other, you and I.

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The Pain of Healing

Just when we think we’re breaking, we may be mending and being made whole again.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed… – 2 Corinthians 4, WEBBE

There are times when nothing seems to be going right. Everything breaks. Everything falls apart. We can’t see how things can still be the same, or how things could possibly work for the better in the end.

But such is not the time for despair. Rather, it is the time for hope. Hope that will give us the strength to keep on going. Hope that will carry us through until the first ray of light comes our way.

We may be in pain, but we shall mend. We may have fallen, but we shall rise again. And when we do, we shall be stronger and braver than we have ever been!

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Remember Your Joy

Let us fill our hearts with as much joy as we possibly can. When we pass through the most troubling times, the happiness we have gathered will be like a light that shines for us in the gloomiest of nights.

“Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” – Nehemiah 8, WEBBE

You Must Remember

You must remember
how it feels to be alive,
what it’s like
to really live,
and breathe,
and love.

You must remember
how it feels
to touch eternity,
to taste goodness,
and beauty
and joy!

You must remember
because we often
seem to forget,
and in making a living,
we have forgotten
to live,
to hear,
to see,
what’s really worth living for.

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Love With No Measure

The only way to love is to love with all your heart. And when you love like that, you love without any measure. You love without end.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. – John 15, WEBBE

That Kind Of Love

How do you go on loving
Tell me how do you still love?
When nothing seems to make sense anymore
When all feels painful
When all is cold and dark

How does love survive
Tell me how could it even live?
When all hope falls into a silence
That gives no comfort
But fills your eyes with tears

Ah, sometimes there are questions
We know not how to answer
As there are troubles
We know not
How we ever survived.

Sometimes we just love
and we go on loving
Even when it really hurts
Even when we don’t get
Anything back.

For there is a kind of love that lives
And endures to the very end,
The kind that doesn’t just give up,
But gives without measure
And holds nothing back.