Loving without any expectations, is the gift. You my friend are a beautiful gift. Thank you for reminding us all no matter the question, love always is the answer.
Dear friend, How I love hearing from you. I hope you might have recognized these words. I learned them many, many people, and especially one particularly lovely friend who shared them with me over coffee and laughs and tears at a time that I needed all of it. I think you would have liked her. ;-)
Thank you for your thoughts, Kris. This feels like an invitation into a deep and rich conversation. Yes.I am convinced that those who feel fully known and fully loved are able to love fearlessly, and maybe even a little recklessly... recklessly in the best possible way. Maybe this is the challenge: to spend one day, just one, as a love cannonball, and just see where it goes. Who knows? Maybe one day turns into two days....
Chris following these months has been eye opening. Keep writing my friend. You are changing personal dictionaries. Belief defined as ‘what you give your heart to’ .. The root of the word Crisis being ‘to sift’… The struggle to capture/define heaven. Thank you my friend.
Tom! So good to hear from you, and thank you for this encouragement. Please know how grateful both Kathryn and I are for your walking with us. You are a sign, I think, pointing to the great love of God.
It's warming up. Maybe we need a Fine Creek afternoon!
Oh dear friend, I do thank you for sharing that version of what a wonderful world. As he sings through grinned teeth and strained neck, the expressions of his heart do send me some where else. Anywhere else but here. I wonder how often you travel to the corners of your mind? I do know that when you go part of me also goes with you and yet part of you also stays with me. I do hope to hear your voice soon dear friend 🤍
How often do I travel to the corners of my mind? All the time, I think. The corners are where the windows are: where the air is the warmest and where there is enough light to see things as they are.
Chris, I also find sharing with you a joy. Just knowing in the sharing that it means so much to me to have that closeness with you. It is in the sharing and being vulnerable that we are most human…I think. I have also learned to travel to the corners on my mind, this is where the vantage points are. You can really step back and see all that has been overcome the topography. It wasn’t but a few years ago that I didn’t believe there was corners of the mind and I was just walking aimlessly in circles.
There are so many layers to this from God’s constant love and pursuit of us to how He wants us to love others. I think you just hit on why he made love the number one and two things of all commandments. But to live without expecting to be loved back truly is a picture of our Father. He is love personified. Thank you brother. Much love.
Keith, Thank you for this note. This line takes my breath away. "But to live without expecting to be loved back truly is a picture of our Father." And if we are his children, then maybe the ability to love in this way is in our DNA? Maybe? And for those times we fail, then grace. Thank you again, Keith. I love hearing your words.
Loving without any expectations, is the gift. You my friend are a beautiful gift. Thank you for reminding us all no matter the question, love always is the answer.
Dear friend, How I love hearing from you. I hope you might have recognized these words. I learned them many, many people, and especially one particularly lovely friend who shared them with me over coffee and laughs and tears at a time that I needed all of it. I think you would have liked her. ;-)
I wonder if perhaps the better we are loved, the more easily we love?
I see, too often, the fear barrier you speak of keeping people from experiencing that all-in, cannonball tuck kind of love.
Thank you, as always, for sharing!
Thank you for your thoughts, Kris. This feels like an invitation into a deep and rich conversation. Yes.I am convinced that those who feel fully known and fully loved are able to love fearlessly, and maybe even a little recklessly... recklessly in the best possible way. Maybe this is the challenge: to spend one day, just one, as a love cannonball, and just see where it goes. Who knows? Maybe one day turns into two days....
I’d love to delve deeper.
And as much as love can hurt, I wish for all of my girls that they will be able to do just that… one day love with wild abandon… cannonball all in!
Chris following these months has been eye opening. Keep writing my friend. You are changing personal dictionaries. Belief defined as ‘what you give your heart to’ .. The root of the word Crisis being ‘to sift’… The struggle to capture/define heaven. Thank you my friend.
Tom! So good to hear from you, and thank you for this encouragement. Please know how grateful both Kathryn and I are for your walking with us. You are a sign, I think, pointing to the great love of God.
It's warming up. Maybe we need a Fine Creek afternoon!
Oh dear friend, I do thank you for sharing that version of what a wonderful world. As he sings through grinned teeth and strained neck, the expressions of his heart do send me some where else. Anywhere else but here. I wonder how often you travel to the corners of your mind? I do know that when you go part of me also goes with you and yet part of you also stays with me. I do hope to hear your voice soon dear friend 🤍
Nicole, it's my joy to share with you.
How often do I travel to the corners of my mind? All the time, I think. The corners are where the windows are: where the air is the warmest and where there is enough light to see things as they are.
How about you?
Chris, I also find sharing with you a joy. Just knowing in the sharing that it means so much to me to have that closeness with you. It is in the sharing and being vulnerable that we are most human…I think. I have also learned to travel to the corners on my mind, this is where the vantage points are. You can really step back and see all that has been overcome the topography. It wasn’t but a few years ago that I didn’t believe there was corners of the mind and I was just walking aimlessly in circles.
There are so many layers to this from God’s constant love and pursuit of us to how He wants us to love others. I think you just hit on why he made love the number one and two things of all commandments. But to live without expecting to be loved back truly is a picture of our Father. He is love personified. Thank you brother. Much love.
Keith, Thank you for this note. This line takes my breath away. "But to live without expecting to be loved back truly is a picture of our Father." And if we are his children, then maybe the ability to love in this way is in our DNA? Maybe? And for those times we fail, then grace. Thank you again, Keith. I love hearing your words.