While doing some cleaning i came across a paper I had kept from a retreat some years back. It describes love and I would like to share the message with you. Here goes….

Love is not love until it hurts
for it is only in forgiveness that
it proves itself.
But how can pain, pride,
anger and tears possibly
be part of loving?

Sometimes the battle seems
too much for us and the vision
of love we once held so dear
seems unobtainable.
Perhaps the foundation stone
beneath all the conflicting emotions
is the genuine desire to love
not to be wholly content
with things as they are

For this is not the whole story
Somewhere, somehow, one day
we shall find the pain and joy
fitting together at last into a
pattern. And we shall say
‘Yes we were not mistaken
this is love – and it is glorious!’

Then we shall be able to see the pain
as part of the whole process
and not give up on loving
because we think it is joy only.

Really beautiful words, unfortunately I don’t know its author, maybe some of you might have come across it somewhere and can tell me who wrote it. It is worth reading once or twice and reflecting on its message…