No greater is sorrow found than in Love’s potential lost. When Adam left God this is true for the Father was saddest with his son gone. The potential to love is great, and greater its absence felt when lacking.
Love a little, cause little pain, unless you are loved much in turn. We try so hard to please, to love, when we don’t know what love is, or how to love and we forget how to find out. The source is clear: who loved first? Start with there. God that loved us, loves us and he makes it clear. Our lives are defined by the love we have. Most of which is God’s, some of which is family’s and friends fill in the remaining whole. Of this God is constant as love, taken for granted, but always potentially ours. Families are what we make of them, whether worthy of our love, loving, loveless – notice how we decide? Potentially family exists to love us, in doing so is a backbone for us, but you have to love your family a little to appreciate their love. Love is known to grow only in this. Love first. Expect nothing. Risk love, share love and your life will have meaning.
Friendship is more a tool than it is anything else. Friends will leave you. When a friend leaves they take part of that love away. They leave some of it too, but only the love that is found in you. Therefore, if you do not love, they leave you with nothing, but this can never come true since we all love, even despisers of love. Even the devil loves God. He would never tell you that, and he tries his best to hide it, but even the devil has sorrow over the love he openly refuses. Leftover, frustrated and refused love is sorrow, the love we feel in our breast, write endless poetry about, the pain we claim to know best.
We start with our parents, maybe friends next, maybe God. Our first sorrow is with our mother. When a baby leaves the womb why does it cry? Because it is forced to leave its mother. As a part of its mother it recognizes love and now it is stripped of this. It cries for the potential it had to stay and grow in this love. Love’s potential lost.
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Do you think that Love will be at its full potential once we are in the presence of God? This column touches me in a profound way, but I wonder what you think we then should do to love to its fullest potential...
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Oh What of God's Potential? And His Love!
Sister be a circle,
I think we already have a taste of God's full potential in love through Christ's birth, and also his death. In those two cases we experience God's unfathomable sacrifice for us. After all love is more sacrifice than anything else. What I think is particularly interesting though is his birth. Too often it is overlooked. If we consider God's sorrow for us, and we consider the separation of mother and child, imagine what it must have been like for Jesus to separate from his mother. Also consider God, the Father's over all sorrow for man after we had fallen to sin -- Eden's potential lost. Paradise Lost = Love Lost or sorrow to this degree. If we are to believe that God = Love, and I think He does, the Bible says he does, then we can only truly ever know the full potential of Love in his presence.
I guess I believe the greatest sign of love we have from God is life. I mean, yes Christ, His life and death is huge, but even before that is a factor for us we must exist and then be born. Perhaps that's why the separation at birth is such a huge factor of love's potential lost.
We can never achieve the level of God's love, but I'd say in order to love to our fullest potential we have to honour the life God gave us. This means of course to try our best to live for Him and to love our brothers. I've always found that we are happiest, that our lives are more complete, have more meaning when we follow this. People have asked me what I think of philosophy and I tell them this is my philosophy: true happiness is achieved by living a life in Christ.
When we do things for others and it's completely selfless -- completely for the sake of doing it. That surge of joy the giver feels, as Scrooge on Christmas Day when he starts to hand out money and joins little Tim's family for a Christmas dinner -- that's the Holy Spirit at work and the closest we ever feel to true Love. Don't misunderstand me. It's not a matter of doing good works, but a matter of being our brother's keeper, of wanting to do good for the sake of it and not caring what will follow, because in this we demonstrate the grace of God, and in this we show we genuinely care about life. To take care, to appreciate, to admire and adore life with all our heart, mind, body and soul. Not just our hearts. That's what I want to do. That's what I hope we all try to do. And that, I think, is the best we can do to fulfill love's potential, as much as we can on earth.
God’s circle of Love continue to complete you,
James H J Prophet
1 Peter 3:15
P.S. Sorry if it sounded like a sermon.
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