Love is awesome
when it works
Because it’s not
exactly without its perks,
But when love
ends badly as it can
Life turns sadly and love we ban.
Talk about the extremities of human emotion
and nothing compares to the disparity between love gained and love lost. Life
can mean acceptance, excitement and joy, or equally it can prove a destination
of despair, drudgery and hopelessness. Let’s enjoy love and hold it lightly as
we can. Grief is still terrible. And when love has left we may truly not wish
to go there again.
When love comes and when love goes are two
completely different stories of God’s grace in each of our lives. It’s easy to
see God’s grace in the aspect of love coming, but how are we to see grace
working as love leaves? Well, the fact is, sometimes we don’t ‘get’ love or God
until we lose love. What is a harsh lesson is nevertheless one ripe for the
learning.
Life is tough when love is hard. There is
no use in mincing words. But if we can hold ourselves open to the idea of love
working out well at some distant point in the future, we will be blessed to
find it again.
***
Love can make you
crazy
Or love makes
life worthwhile,
Whether life’s
joy or hazy
Is little to do
with your style.
Anyone can fall
in love
Just like anyone
can be betrayed,
So be thankful to
God above
When your love has verily stayed.
It helps when we have the perspective of
love favouring neither one nor the other. Love comes into our lives perhaps not
so much by chance, but love works out probably as randomly. Sure, a lot goes
into our selections of love, as does the work we put in to our relationships,
but at the end of the day strange is the outcome of life for the one who is
loved and then lost.
***
Now, love occurs
most naturally
For many it
seems,
It’s not set so
theatrically
Like in those
funny little dreams.
But it’s just as
tragic
When death barges
right on in,
It’s the opposite
of magic
When life’s thrown in a spin.
Grief
hurts so much because love means so much. If love was easy, grief would also be
easy, but that is not the case. No matter how we ‘fell in love’, the losing of
love will hurt a great deal – and much more than we even imagine.
© 2014 S. J. Wickham.
Thank you for this today Steve.... I have been thinking about my husband (who died by suicide just over three years ago) and our marriage with its ups and downs....and the love I had for him....but not that he's no longer here, love hurts and it's painful to walk alone. I've been asking God to help me understand something of His love.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing, Karen. Our love to you, Steve and Sarah xx
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