tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31105118.post1473803292228229176..comments2023-09-12T08:47:06.615-04:00Comments on Naru Hodo: More from Anne, a Lay Apostle's Book Lessons In LoveMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04500724701139176293noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31105118.post-40740824171956379802017-10-30T00:05:21.005-04:002017-10-30T00:05:21.005-04:00Anne's writing is remarkable. I will treat the...Anne's writing is remarkable. I will treat the passages in no particular order.<br /><br /><i>Craving love from each other is a good thing. This makes us like Christ who craves our love. Yet, in this time, many feel ashamed that they crave love from others. The greater the love we feel for others, the greater the craving for a reciprocal response of love. Our craving does not insure that we will receive that which we crave, any more than the Lord's craving for love from each man is satisfied.</i><br /><br />I am so much a victim of this: I crave to love and be loved, I am never satisfied. I crave intimacy and desire intimacy (not merely physical), but am never fulfilled. I don't know how to deal with this, it causes me so much pain. Often, I read advice or get indications from people that this is disordered: either I am rebuked religiously "turn to Jesus and he will be enough for you", or asked to see a psychiatrist, or asked to get a grip on myself.<br /><br />I don't know how to deal with this. I want to love others. Where are they?<br /><br /><i>The beloved becomes more and more disposed to the Lover and gradually, in the same way, learns to become more and more alert to the Lover's whims and communications.</i><br /><br />Yes I'd like to hear more whims and communications. If I have learned through marriage that the secret to any relationship, not merely the marital one, is frequent communication that is both truthful, kind, and builds up, then surely He who claims to be the Lover of my soul must do that at the very least. Somedays, perhaps many days, I feel disappointed, though.<br /><br /><i>Jesus, the Lover, always alert, watches His beloved. If the beloved shows signs of weariness or discouragement, the Lover moves swiftly to refresh and encourage.</i><br /><br />But oh, it's always just enough, just enough to bring us back to life, and never a full recharge. Recently I've hit the point where I can only live day by day. I can make rational plans for the future, and take steps to accomplish those plans, but in my emotional and spiritual life I have only enough for one day, sometimes only enough for the next moment.<br /><br />Ah when will it all end? When will it be enough?<br />Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04137271666814486522noreply@blogger.com