Monday, April 19, 2010
How easily love goes unnoticed and undetected--how easily love goes underappreciated--yet how necessary it is to survival.
If there was no secret love in the world, how many of us would simply grow sick and die? Without the Eponines and the Ophelias, how many of us would fall into some kind of trouble without someone else's unrequited desperation to spur them to our aid?
Poor Jesus. One of the kids in youth group asked how hell could be the absence of God when so many people live without God daily. I told her that no one who is alive lives without God. God, the rejected lover. His love and jealousy of us is too great to let us suffer much. He shows us grace all the time, and we say, "super, that was nice." If I were God, I probably would have drown myself in a river by now. Good thing He has a plan.
I know I've had my share of unrequited love thrown my way. Sometimes it makes life harder, but I'm pretty sure I should be grateful for it. Love is so painful. Maybe because it is so powerful. This universal thing is so keenly personal. This life-force of the universe is also its undoing.
posted by Mary 7:06 PM
