Love

Some thoughts on love...I'm working on bringing my journal entries to this blogsite! :)

To live fully, you must love completely. To love fully, you will definitely be hurt, broken, often to end of the reach of hope. There you must make a decision. To live or not. For without love, you have no hope, thus, no purpose for living. But with each breath we unconsciously breathe, there is always a whisper of hope, the promise of something great, something beautiful just within our grasp. ~~E~~


To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it careful round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable…The only place outside of heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all dangers of love…is hell. (CS Lewis)


Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper even than reality. (GK Chesterton)

It is impossible for hope to exist without love. When I think back to the times when hope felt long gone, the presence of love in my life also seemed distant. All it can take is a single heart, believing, hoping, loving; inspires my soul to great things again. Yes, to be loved, as I am, truly is my greatest source of hope. ~~E~~