January 25, 2006
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Okay, here’s a filler while I stew on the vagaries of Love (something I’ve been ruminating on lately)
CS LEWIS
from “The Four Loves”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries …
lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. …
The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is hell!”
“Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.”
reveling in the knowledge that we are indeed loved, and not alone
Jim
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edit #3…Chris Rice paints a beautiful portrait of the love we long for in this song..it’s called “Intimacy”
edit….I’ve moved it onto the music player @ the left…it’s the last song
Comments (19)
Don’t you just LOVE C.S. Lewis?? I will never learn enough about love
Jimmish thank you for your post… I love C.S. Lewis. Isn’t it this love that brings about in us the great awakening of our hearts… the very desire to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God? Why is it that in some this love causes us to trip on grace? It makes me wonder if we ever truly knew His love? In the end I find myself praying with Paul that God would give me a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of my heart enlightened so that I may know what is the hope to which God has called me. I’m afraid that I have not known what the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints is. Nor the immearsurable greatness of His power toward those who believe. Can I say that it is His great might that has worked in me like He worked in Christ – raising Him from the deadn and seating Christ at His right hand in the heavenly place?
that’s what I’ve been struggling with in my journey over the last two weeks. What fruit does my life bear in light of God’s grace? Is it possible that I have twisted the message of God’s grace so that instead of changing the pathetic condition of my heart of stone it merely sits it on a grander pedestal and continues to worship it’s own selfish desires. Is my obedience to God just a happy coincidence, where my selfish desires and his commands happen to intersect? For so often I find myself picking and choosing the laws that suit me while avoiding those that don’t allow me to indulge my favorite desires. In the end I often find that I don’t desire to have anyone tell me what to do – not even God.
Excellent post once again. I have been ruminating on love, myself a lot lately. It is a for those who have been hurt over and over. I found myself for a long time in that coffin of hell.
But at the very least, one can open their hearts to the love of God if they are in that place, difficult though even that may be, long as it may take to let Him convince them of His love. But oh the rewards of persistent pursual of belief and trust in His love! Great is His mercy, great is His grace, to souls who trust in Him, and make Him the love of their lives.
Look forward to seeing what else you come up with in your musings on love.
Thank you very much for your comments, also. As always:)
Those words are quite true. Reminds me of “Is it better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all?”
Happy continued rumination on the vagaries of love!
Kathi
Great post Jim!!!
Indeed we are loved..
A hug,
Lucy
That quote kinda says it all. May God guide your ruminations on love; after all, He is the ultimate expert. I shudder to think what our lives would be like had God done as Lewis describes, to lock His heart away the minute Lucifer rebelled, or the minute Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, or when it was so bad He had to destroy all but 8 of us. And praise and thanks be to God that He IS love, and has the power to make sure that Love IS the only way that “will work”, and that He loved us enough to give His son for our sins so we can have His love, too, and share it with each other. Lewis is right, love is a risk…but the alternative is absolutely unthinkable. Love to all, Gerrie
OH! ryc, I just got home from work and saw your comment, and I’m praying for the little one:) Hope she feels better soon. Pobrecita:) Gerrie
I love C.S Lewis…. Thanks for the post. Hope all is going great for you . It is snowing here and the wind is blowing about 40 to 60 mph at times. I don’t mind the snow so much.. but the wind gets on my nerves. We live on a knoll just across a small valley (Shenandoah Valley) from the Appalachian Mountains.. and the wind comes across the mountain top.. over the valley and slams up the knoll with a tremendous force. The back of our house is facing the valley ! Sounds like a train at times.
Have a great evening and be blessed of the Lord!
Phil
To take the chance to love and possibly be rejected is worth it because you may find the love you need but not trying to love is just boredom…Blessings to you today!!……Mike
Could that be from his “A Grief Observed” book? That one is heart-wrenching in and of itself! You know, your posts come at just the right time for me sometimes. Thank you for being used by God to calm me, comfort me, and challenge me! (selfishly!)
RYC: Wow! God is truly good. Thanks for sharing that.
RYC: Wow! God is truly good. Thanks for sharing that.
Hello, Jim. I see you’re breaking out the C.S. Lewis; always a wonderful author to cull from. Anyway, I thought I’d drop by and say thanks for the comments. Life’s been busy but I consider that a positive sign of life, however intangible to other Xangans.
Of course, if I’m not mistaken, you see something out of me every other week anyway; this past issue in particular has sparked some great conversation. The metaphysics of the soul is always a thought-provoking topic.
Thank you my dear friend…
A hug,
Lucy
tanya had all four wisdom teeth pulled today and is resting her worn and hurting body. they were supposed to pull them several months ago, because of a serious infection – however, she was expecting and it had to wait.
- please keep her in your thoughts and prayers –
:: stoker
Thanks jimmish for your comments and your recent subscription….May God Bless you today…..Mike
PS. Do you have alot of copyrighted written works? The last one you posted was very good.
wow, is this from “Miracles?”
..Love your music..
I come here to read your beautiful posts,always very profound to me…To thank you for your comments..
..and listen to your music…Love it..Thanks for sharing..
Have a wonderful weekend!!
A hug,
Lucy
I want a music player where did you get that?… it rocks!!! Although I can’t get Intimacy to play (it’s a Chris Rice song instead) have you ever heard Eoghen Heaslip’s song called Intimacy? powerful!