Category: Words of Wisdom

It is not the one who thirsts for love that lacks love, but the one who cannot even look, who does not really care to be found. – Jocelyn Soriano

Broken hearts, hearts that grieve, hearts overcome with painful and unfulfilled longing. These may yet be nearer to love, these may yet possess it! They are not the ones who truly lose what’s precious. For even in their pain, love lingers. Is love not the true reason behind each tear? Is love not the reason for the wounds of the heart?

Let those who thirst for love know that love has found them even before they began to thirst for love. Love itself has carved out that space, which only love can fill.

I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. – Song of Solomon 3:2, WEB

Afterwards, Jesus… said: I thirst. – John 19:28, DRA

“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

“I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

What is heaven? It is something we can never quite grasp here on earth. Maybe something we can sense or desire, but never something we can fully imagine or understand.

What is God’s love like? It is something that touches us and changes us, something that moves us far beyond what we thought we’re capable of. It is like the wind that comes and goes where it will, gentle and strong at the same time, giving us life.

All our lives, we have dreamed of many things, we have desired many loves. Quite often though, something touches us that we have not expected at all, and we realize that it is this very thing that we have been looking for all along.

Keep your faith then. Believe even though you cannot see. God moves always, and He always moves out of great power and compassion.

You may not know it now, but He is constantly pursuing you, doing every good thing to draw you closer and give you joy. A joy beyond everything you have ever possessed and beyond all things you could ever hope for.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” – 1 Corinthians 2, WEB

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?” – Matthew 6:27, WEB

What use is worrying? If things do not turn out according to your desires, can your worrying do anything about it? Or what if things turn out well after all? What if you’ve worried yourself so much only to find out things have turned out far better than you could ever control or imagine them to be?

It is useless to worry. Reserve your strength for far better things like dealing with whatever will happen.

If things do not work out in your favor, you will have no other choice but to accept it and to move on from there. Start over if you must. Cry if the grief is too hard to bear. Do everything that is possible to overcome your troubles and trust in the God who cares for you and watches over you.

If things turn out to be far better than where your own thoughts could ever take you, raise your voice in thanksgiving and praise Him who has made all things beautiful in His time.

“…deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer such terrible evils that it does not seem as though any good will ever come of them; and we consider this, sorrowing and grieving over it so that we cannot find peace in the blessed contemplation of God as we should do; and this is why: our reasoning powers are so blind now, so humble and so simple, that we cannot know the high, marvelous wisdom, the might and the goodness of the Holy Trinity. And this is what he means where he says, ‘You shall see for yourself that all manner of things shall be well’, as if he said, ‘Pay attention to this now, faithfully and confidently, and at the end of time you will truly see it in the fullness of joy.” – Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love