To Love and be Loved..con’t.

The elements of love…..

I liked this section….Knowledge….Love without knowledge is a sentiment without depth.

To know me is to love me….or to know me is not to love me…..  read on.

“Which one of us does not sequester a shadow of shame that makes us fear that “to know me is not to love me”? “If someone were to see me as I am,” you may think, “with all my faults, brokenness, conceits, weaknesses, needs, feelings of worthlessness, and grandiosity, they would turn aside in disgust. Therefore I hide. Half of my life takes place in some closet or other, safe from the prying eyes of others.”

“but wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love.  It is an awe-ful risk.”

Easy to say, hard to do…..but to get to that point, where nothing is hidden, and you know you are loved unconditionally …..wow….. is it possible with human love?  I guess knowing that God’s love is this way, and we are made in the image of God, it must be possible…..