I first wrote the words “I love you” in a note to a girl when I was in the 5th grade. It felt good. And the feeling was even better when I received a note back with the same words. A core belief took shape… Continue Reading “Choosing to Love So It Hurts”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Faith, Faithful, For God so Loved, Give, giving, God, God Image, Hope, I Love You, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John 3:16, love, Love Hurts, Love is not a feeling, Love Sick, Love till it Hurts, Redeemed, Redemption, Salvation, Separated from God, Suffer, Suffering, The Cross, To Love is to Give, True Happiness, Truth
I was encouraged as a child to memorize the Ten Commandments. The meaning of the rules seemed clear to me except the last one. “Thou shalt not covet.” Around that same age, I heard the word “covenant” used in a Sunday-morning sermon. Jesus had come to… Continue Reading “Choosing REAL Satisfaction”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Boundaries, Can't get satisfaction, Complete, covet, Covetousness, Crave, Craving, Deepest Desires, Delighted, Desire, desires, Dissatisfaction, Dissatisfied, Feeling Empty, Fulfilled, Fulfillment, Grasping, Hungry, I want, I want more, Idolatry, Idols, Incomplete, Limits, Longing, Lusting, More than this, No Satisfaction, Not satisfied, Restless, Restrictions, Rules, Satisfaction, Satisfied, True Happiness, Unhappy, Wanting, Yearn, Yearning
I read of her in my college literature class, Lady Elaine of Astolat. A figure in Arthurian legend, she died from the weight of unrequited love. Sir Lancelot just didn’t feel it the same way she did. Of course, dying because of or for… Continue Reading “Choosing Strange Love”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Death, Doubts, Faith, Feelings, Good Feelings, Happiness, Ignatius of Antioch, Jesus, Jesus' Sacrifice, Joy, Lady Elaine, love, Love Hurts, Love like Jesus, Love that Gives, Martyrs, Meaning, Perpetua and Felicity, Polycarp, Purpose, Sacrificial Death, sacrificial love, Self-centered, Sentiments, Strange Love, Suffering, Till Death do us part, True Happiness, Unrequited Love
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