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Your love is that torrential downpour, Lord. that tremendous and aweinspiring outpouring that interrupts our day, that causes frustration due to our plans being changed. Lord, if we could only see with Your eyes! if we only understood how desperately we need Your love! only much later do we see the regeneration and growth that You so freely laid upon us. thank You for loving us relentlessly. thank You for caring for our true needs and for ignoring our feeble cries for what we desire. Lord, You are so holy!
this is what love does: it brings people out into the light, no matter how painful that transition might prove to be. love aims at revelation, at a clarifying and defining of our true natures. it is a sort of sharpening process, a paring away of dull and lifeless exteriors so that the keen new edge of a person's true self can begin to flash and gleam in the light of day...and sharpening is a painful process: extract the pain from love, and there is nothing left.
-mike mason, the mystery of marriage
love reveals us for who we really are, for what we really stand for. help my sharp edges, my inadequacies, my foolishness, to be pared away. may the purity of Your heart shine through. may i be refined further and further by Your glory. may i become a truly excellent, truly Godly wife.
kare bear
this is what love does: it brings people out into the light, no matter how painful that transition might prove to be. love aims at revelation, at a clarifying and defining of our true natures. it is a sort of sharpening process, a paring away of dull and lifeless exteriors so that the keen new edge of a person's true self can begin to flash and gleam in the light of day...and sharpening is a painful process: extract the pain from love, and there is nothing left.
-mike mason, the mystery of marriage
love reveals us for who we really are, for what we really stand for. help my sharp edges, my inadequacies, my foolishness, to be pared away. may the purity of Your heart shine through. may i be refined further and further by Your glory. may i become a truly excellent, truly Godly wife.
kare bear