you can love Jesus, but you will still feel pain brought on by a heart created in God's image living in a world whose tactic it is to distract from pain, never remove it. you can always find pain, always. that's why you have to fight for Love. fight to find Love, feel Love, see Love and seperate it from lust, dependency and comfort. Love is not the absence of pain, it is the presence of something far more beautiful and lasting. if you need a picture: Jesus loved us in a way that took on all the responsibility for nurturing and pursuing and giving in the relationship, and then never told us we weren't pulling our weight. then God had to punish His children for not pulling any weight in their relationship with Him. we never saw that punishment, Jesus shouldered that yoke of burden for us as well. after we finished abusing, neglecting and ignoring Jesus, He said to His Father; they don't know any better. then His actions said; since they don't know how to Love, I will Love enough for them and I will show them what Love looks like. Jesus suffered much pain to show us Love. Love is sometimes sacrifice. Love often comes with pain.
God does not grant us immunity to pain because He still hopes we can learn from Jesus how to Love.
cracked
i came upon a crack today
in my cement foundation
your Love was fighting to get in
and break my isolation
hammers and the like abound
who knew tender was the key
i only hope these two small leaves
will grow into a tree
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