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Are Relationships Worth It?

Are Relationships Worth It?

Are relationships worth it?

Well. They are if they are the right kind.

I mean, I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be “loved” by anyone with some kind of timid and shy love, bordering on pleasantries.

I want something deep and worth fighting for.

An emotion that makes one grit their teeth and stirs a feeling they never knew they had…

I like how I have seen, and come to understand, different aspects of love as the years have gone by. Parents. Faith. Friends, Spouse. Children.

Maybe we all are just looking for relationships worth our time – worth giving our lives for?

Understand: Relationships are all there is.

You asked for a loving God: you have one. The great spirit you so lightly invoked, the ‘lord of terrible aspect’, is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist’s love for his work and despotic as a man’s love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father’s love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes.

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem Of Pain (Amazon)

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If God Is Love

If God Is Love

If God is love (instead of irrelevant), it raises more questions than it answers, I think.

  • Why are we here?
  • What is our purpose?
  • What is the point?
  • What is evil anyway?

But saying we are “immeasurably insignificant” doesn’t feel right somehow.

The alternative to this is even more significant.

For if we are “incalculable precious and interesting” we have suddenly flung open the doors of patience and kindness and gentleness and grace.

Suddenly love is possible.

And suddenly everything is possible.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem Of Pain (Amazon)

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