Broken hearts are not instantaneous. They are made gradually and progressively over time. They are made of love and faith and dreams. They are made of caring and sharing and hope. They are made of expectations. They are made of commitment and respect. When these things are broken, these things a person values most, or those we set our heart on and build our lives around, we lose hope and we die.
I think the only one we should love like that is God because if we love Him we can never be hopeless. He does not die. He cannot be taken away from us. He is the only one who can return life to those we love, and thereby return hope to us.
There is no living human being who can offer or fulfill such a promise of hope. There is no hero who can fill our endless needs or reverse our destructive habits. There is no living person who can inspire or command in the manner God can. People with Godly attributes can persuade our minds and our hearts to adopt good traits and become better people though.
Life is a search and a learning experience. We are searching for perfection, beauty, balance, symmetry. We are looking for happiness. Most important, we are looking for happiness that never ends, because misery is unendurable. Broken hearts are unendurable. It seems impossible to go on after someone we love dies or is taken away from us.
If we believe in the spiritual things and believe those we love are still out there somewhere, loving us the way we love them, we can still have courage to go on and make them proud of us by doing the things they would have liked to see us do.
In fact, these days it is easier to believe that unseen people are out there watching what we do, because there are so many cameras always watching us. We do not know when we are going to be captured on video in unseemly and unflattering positions. Doesn't it make sense then, to try harder than ever to be good?
I have always believed if I could make a total commitment to God, everything would be okay and I would eventually find my way to happiness. Commitment itself is a progressive process. It's easy to make mistakes and lose the way.
Broken hearts come in varying degrees just like any other break. Some are little breaks like chips off an edge, almost imperceptible damage. Some are bad breaks but still reparable. The worst ones are life threatening or fatal. When someone dies of a broken heart, we know for sure that their hearts were committed completely.
I think Jesus died of a broken heart, and He loved so completely He could not live when God withdrew briefly and He was alone.
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I think the only one we should love like that is God because if we love Him we can never be hopeless. He does not die. He cannot be taken away from us. He is the only one who can return life to those we love, and thereby return hope to us.
There is no living human being who can offer or fulfill such a promise of hope. There is no hero who can fill our endless needs or reverse our destructive habits. There is no living person who can inspire or command in the manner God can. People with Godly attributes can persuade our minds and our hearts to adopt good traits and become better people though.
Life is a search and a learning experience. We are searching for perfection, beauty, balance, symmetry. We are looking for happiness. Most important, we are looking for happiness that never ends, because misery is unendurable. Broken hearts are unendurable. It seems impossible to go on after someone we love dies or is taken away from us.
If we believe in the spiritual things and believe those we love are still out there somewhere, loving us the way we love them, we can still have courage to go on and make them proud of us by doing the things they would have liked to see us do.
In fact, these days it is easier to believe that unseen people are out there watching what we do, because there are so many cameras always watching us. We do not know when we are going to be captured on video in unseemly and unflattering positions. Doesn't it make sense then, to try harder than ever to be good?
I have always believed if I could make a total commitment to God, everything would be okay and I would eventually find my way to happiness. Commitment itself is a progressive process. It's easy to make mistakes and lose the way.
Broken hearts come in varying degrees just like any other break. Some are little breaks like chips off an edge, almost imperceptible damage. Some are bad breaks but still reparable. The worst ones are life threatening or fatal. When someone dies of a broken heart, we know for sure that their hearts were committed completely.
I think Jesus died of a broken heart, and He loved so completely He could not live when God withdrew briefly and He was alone.
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