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I AM NOW ABLE TO LOVE OTHERS OUT OF MY OWN FULFILLMENT ...
Having our needs met by receiving the love of God and others is not just about "feeling better"; it's about fulfillment. To fulfill means satisfy, to meet requirements. When the requirements of our needs are met, it satisfies us at our deepest core. This fulfillment produces peace, contentment, and healing. As our wounds heal, we can look away from them with fresh passion, confidence, and love for others.
To give love that can be trusted is the end goal of receiving love. This is where life gets worth living. It jump-starts one of the most profoundly beautiful and miraculous chain reactions anyone gets to witness in this lifetime. Closed, broken, bluffing men and women come squinting out of dark corners and into the light, singing songs and telling stories they didn't know were in them. They begin to feel alive, secure in His embrace, seeing the world for the first time in full color. Each becomes real, safe, creative, and unimpeachable. Almost involuntarily, they begin to offer to all around them a love as rich and freeing as what they are taking in.
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, that miraculous world where we were best known returns, only now even more beautiful. Hurt is transformed into relationships of trusted love. There is unspoken permission for others to tell hard truth, even clumsily expressed. And if you do get crossways, by morning, one glance of acknowledged forgiveness sets you back out riding into awaiting adventures. Now you discover others, many others, are riding with you. Some of them are safe and wildly free, with bikes even more tricked out than your own. Others are broken friendships now restored, more vulnerable and gratefully strong. Some are husbands and wives, once distant and secretly enduring, now riding fully known, grinning alongside each other. Still others held out on the love of Jesus, but are now irreparably drawn to Him by the love you've offered. They ride at the front of this pack of friends, risking to go deep into the woods. By day, we work and play hard. At night we lie on our backs in fields, talking unhurriedly about everything and anything. There we have our best conversations about God. There is little posturing, bluffing, hiding, pretending, or deceiving. Few care who is more talented or better looking.
This is the stunning power of love. This is what Jesus came for us to realize. It is not an illusion or a nostalgic childhood memory. It is ours for the taking.
And the giving.
The Cure, Chapter 6, Two Solutions
https://www.trueface.org/the-cure
Having our needs met by receiving the love of God and others is not just about "feeling better"; it's about fulfillment. To fulfill means satisfy, to meet requirements. When the requirements of our needs are met, it satisfies us at our deepest core. This fulfillment produces peace, contentment, and healing. As our wounds heal, we can look away from them with fresh passion, confidence, and love for others.
To give love that can be trusted is the end goal of receiving love. This is where life gets worth living. It jump-starts one of the most profoundly beautiful and miraculous chain reactions anyone gets to witness in this lifetime. Closed, broken, bluffing men and women come squinting out of dark corners and into the light, singing songs and telling stories they didn't know were in them. They begin to feel alive, secure in His embrace, seeing the world for the first time in full color. Each becomes real, safe, creative, and unimpeachable. Almost involuntarily, they begin to offer to all around them a love as rich and freeing as what they are taking in.
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, that miraculous world where we were best known returns, only now even more beautiful. Hurt is transformed into relationships of trusted love. There is unspoken permission for others to tell hard truth, even clumsily expressed. And if you do get crossways, by morning, one glance of acknowledged forgiveness sets you back out riding into awaiting adventures. Now you discover others, many others, are riding with you. Some of them are safe and wildly free, with bikes even more tricked out than your own. Others are broken friendships now restored, more vulnerable and gratefully strong. Some are husbands and wives, once distant and secretly enduring, now riding fully known, grinning alongside each other. Still others held out on the love of Jesus, but are now irreparably drawn to Him by the love you've offered. They ride at the front of this pack of friends, risking to go deep into the woods. By day, we work and play hard. At night we lie on our backs in fields, talking unhurriedly about everything and anything. There we have our best conversations about God. There is little posturing, bluffing, hiding, pretending, or deceiving. Few care who is more talented or better looking.
This is the stunning power of love. This is what Jesus came for us to realize. It is not an illusion or a nostalgic childhood memory. It is ours for the taking.
And the giving.
The Cure, Chapter 6, Two Solutions
