Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. Alan Cohen
I adore today's quote. I am challenged by today's quote. Today's quote starts my Rolodex of names, searching for the ones who love me in the ways today's quote describes and reminding me of who I love in this way. In our humanness love is a tricky thing because we place conditions on it. We place external and internal conditions on our love for others, we base it on performance, we define it according to our baggage. Love in our humanness is a tricky, tricky thing. And oftentimes we equate love and worth/value. So if we are having a hard time loving someone then we also are probably having a hard time treating them with worth.
Back to the actual point of today's quote, if we are having a hard time seeing worth/value in ourselves then we will have a hard time believing we can be loved. That's where I hope you and I both have people in our lives that love us wholly and without conditions so we can be reminded that even in brokenness, ugly moments, confusion, and mistake laden days we do have worth/value and we are loved.
This kind of love doesn't come from our humanness, it's rather impossible. In our flesh we can't love this well, it is a supernatural kind of love. Don't be fooled and think that you can love this well in and of yourself. You can't. Whether we recognize it or not we always have some condition placed on people and it always pops up at the times we least expect. Loving well, like today's quote describes, only has one source. You know me well enough by now to know who that one source is. It is God. It is God because he is the creator, the author, the perfecter of love. It is only through him that we can love others well and allow ourselves to be loved.
Do you have people in your life who are loving you and reminding you of your worth/value in the times when you have forgotten? Are you being that person to others?
I adore today's quote. I am challenged by today's quote. Today's quote starts my Rolodex of names, searching for the ones who love me in the ways today's quote describes and reminding me of who I love in this way. In our humanness love is a tricky thing because we place conditions on it. We place external and internal conditions on our love for others, we base it on performance, we define it according to our baggage. Love in our humanness is a tricky, tricky thing. And oftentimes we equate love and worth/value. So if we are having a hard time loving someone then we also are probably having a hard time treating them with worth.
Back to the actual point of today's quote, if we are having a hard time seeing worth/value in ourselves then we will have a hard time believing we can be loved. That's where I hope you and I both have people in our lives that love us wholly and without conditions so we can be reminded that even in brokenness, ugly moments, confusion, and mistake laden days we do have worth/value and we are loved.
This kind of love doesn't come from our humanness, it's rather impossible. In our flesh we can't love this well, it is a supernatural kind of love. Don't be fooled and think that you can love this well in and of yourself. You can't. Whether we recognize it or not we always have some condition placed on people and it always pops up at the times we least expect. Loving well, like today's quote describes, only has one source. You know me well enough by now to know who that one source is. It is God. It is God because he is the creator, the author, the perfecter of love. It is only through him that we can love others well and allow ourselves to be loved.
Do you have people in your life who are loving you and reminding you of your worth/value in the times when you have forgotten? Are you being that person to others?
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