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Love Can Only Be Kept by Being Given Away |
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
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Love cannot be kept it can only be given away.
From the writings of Thomas Merton
A happiness that is sought for our ourselves alone can never be found: for happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy. There is a false momentary happiness in self-satisfaction, but always leads to sorrow because it narrows and darkens our spirit. True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared. There is no end to the sharing of love, and therefore, the potential of such love is without limit. Infinite sharing is the law of God’s inner-self. He has made the sharing of ourselves the law of our own being, so that it is in loving others that we best love ourselves. In disinterested activity we be fulfil our own capacities to act and to be.
Yet there can never be happiness in compulsion. It is not enough for love to be shared: it must be shared freely. That is to say that it must be given, not merely taken. Unselfish love that is poured out upon selfish objects do not bring perfect happiness: not because love requires a reward for loving but because it rests in the happiness of the beloved. And if the one loved receives the love selfishly, the lover is not satisfied. He sees that his love has failed ro make the beloved happy. It has not awakened his capacity for unselfish love.
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Jan
23
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Coming Soon - "The Apprentice" - Available March 1st |
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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Well I must say that I am so excited about the latest book - I think I have shed more tears writing this one that doing anything else in my life. If you want a sneak preview before March 1st click on Open Ads in the top right hand corner of the home page.
In the meantime let me get you warmed up for the book: I’m going to make the assumption that if you’re reading this book, you’re a returnee and this isn’t the first time we’re having a chat. I need to make that assumption because I’ve made no allowance in these pages for the uninitiated and I offer no apologies for doing so. I’m satisfied that the introductory volume, “Safe & Sound”, of the “Until Christ Is Formed” trilogy is fit for the purpose. So, in this instalment, we’ll be developing, rather than recapitulating, what I call the three R’s – Redemption, Restoration and Relationship. This book is unapologetically about the working out of your salvation but it presupposes that you’ve understood that it’s God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for His good pleasure [Phil. 2:13]. What I’m trying to say is that you need to have worked out your salvation before you can work out your salvation.
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