There is a desire inside every person to be loved. To be truly loved. And we feel so let down when people don't love us properly, but lets face facts. People will always let us down, we know it. Marriages these days can barely be called 'lasting.' And those that are are riddled with thorns & hard bits.
While this blog post may seem dark, & for some people hard to read. I actually want it to be a ray of hope, let me explain; humans are always going to let us down, and its very sad ... so very sad. But there is a God, a God who throughout the bible shows us real love. Unrequited love for the Israelites throughout the Old Testament & completely sacrificial love as Jesus is nailed to a cross. There's a God out there waiting to show me love, real, strong, steadfast love. And I continually reject it by ignoring him, by giving him the smallest amount of time I can a day, instead of all of my time.
I'm such a fool.
God, thanks for your crazy love.
It is true, love is an emotion all of us desire strongly.
ReplyDeleteIt is also true that people will let you down.
People let us down because no one is perfect. I'm sure you know this.
No one can go through life without making mistakes. Our mistakes, our imperfections, are what makes us perfect. As crazy as that sounds. As the proverb goes ''Fall down seven times, get up eight".
A perfect human will muck up. If it didn't, it would be something inhuman.
I believe it is of large importance to accept that, whether it be to understand other peoples mistakes or whether it be to understand your very own flaws.
I don't believe someone will ever find something perfect. In fact, the very word deems something impossible, it's more of a feeble concept for understanding such things.
If your god is perfect, then I believe he is impossible. I can understand Greek mythology better than your faith; the Greeks understood the above it seems. Their gods were never perfect. They were seldom benevolent and often malevolent. And that makes more sense, as it is something everyone, regardless of their upbringing or location, can understand. Imperfection. Because it is all around us.
I believe living in the hope of finding something perfect will be ultimately futile. But I respect that living in happy ignorance can be much better than the alternative. My advice would be to accept all the inconveniences of life. Don't dwell on something that is unreachable.
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