Reflections

Alot has happened this past week, Not only in life, but in my head. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a writer of the Nazi Era is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. He talks about life as a Christian as compared to "Human Love" as he calls it. He talks about the inferiority of human love in the sense that it is driven by desire. We desire the physical presence of the one we love, we long for their attention, thier returned love. We lust after these things

Spiritual love on the other hand is completly different. It does not long for the love ones physical presence, as it understands that physical fellow believers are a blessing! Consider the imprisioned, the missions, the lonely! They are no less a part of the family of God, even though they do not see thier brothers and sisters. Spiritual Love instead Clings directly to Jesus, and through him, indirectly to others. In this fashion, we see our Loved one not through the selfish eyes of desire and manipulation, with which we try o force people to fit into our vision of how they should act, or look, or feel. Instead, we see them as the person Christ wants them to be, that Christ designed them to be.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.
~ Corinthians 13:12