My music tonight is Jackson Browne singing "Something Fine." I'm reflecting on life; largely because I am very tired, and that always lends a pensive air to my thoughts.
I listened to an old friend tonight who spoke of betrayal.
His story is long, meaningful, and tragic.
People are so beautiful when you listen to them.
Heartache is our common thread, isn't it? I think I know why, or one reason, anyway. I think that deep heartache is very much Godlike.
It seems to me that God so often has His Heart broken. He suffers so deeply from me and you. It's because He loves so deeply.
We have to love really, really deeply in order to have our hearts broken like that. This is why I think it's Godlike. We get to have a little glimpse of what God must think or feel (if that's possible). After all, we are made in His Image.
But I don't think we really get close to His size of emotion unless we have fallen in love, or had our hearts ripped out.
I think about this sort of thing quite often for an optimist.
You know, I have said this before:
I like people who have suffered. I do. They are so easy to be with. So easy to love. They love so freely, which seems counter-intuitive. It's God, that's all I can figure.
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