Fwd: The Ransomed Heart - Awkward Love
I got this email in my inbox today. It's another early morning and I needed to hear that "We need one another." This entire block and it seems my entire life I depend on other people who are more talented (in taking notes, drawing pictures, organizing things, planning things, making things, etc). I need others to help me out.
When I read this I realize how vulnerable you are when you rely on others.
I have been starting to do a lot of things on my own. I have a fellowship at school that I am applying for (application is due Friday and I have yet to write my 1 page essay). Today I find out where I will be going for rotations. Eek... I just need to remember that God is in control. It's absolutely amazing what God has done for me.
Read the following and enjoy.
Always. C
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From:
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Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:30 AM
Subject: The Ransomed Heart - Awkward Love
To:
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Awkward Love
03/19/2008
Honest communication in love is the only way to live and grow in friendships. There are ebbs and flows. There may be real hurt and disappointment. But with the grace of God firmly holding us, it is possible to nurture and sustain deep friendships. We are designed to live in relationship and share in the lives of other women. We need one another. God knows that. We have only to ask and surrender, to wait, to hope, and, in faith, to love. We must also repent.
For a woman to enjoy relationship, she must repent of her need to control and her insistence that people fill her. Fallen Eve demands that people "come through" for her. Redeemed Eve is being met in the depths of her soul by Christ and is free to offer to others, free to desire, and willing to be disappointed. Fallen Eve has been wounded by others and withdraws in order to protect herself from further harm. Redeemed Eve knows that she has something of value to offer; that she is made for relationship. Therefore, being safe and secure in her relationship with her Lord, she can risk being vulnerable with others and offer her true self.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable . . . The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers . . . of love is Hell. (C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves)
(Captivating , 181–82)
See also the Ransomed Heart Podcast at www.ransomedheart.com/podcast | | |
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