All love requires a bit of cost.
That’s why when we love {and we love well} sometimes we give a bit of ourselves away. Maybe we swallow a bit of hurt or we operate with the knowledge that our baby-girl daughters who turn seven next month will want to move out of our homes before we can blink.
Our love chinks away at the solid core of our hearts until maybe, we think that we have nothing left. Maybe we feel like loving for one more hour would put us at risk of failure in the grandest sense.
Loving family, loving hard people, loving people that God puts in the way of our hearts — all of it is giving a little bit of ourselves away.
Sometimes love works our hearts down to the nub.
But it is a dim reflection of what Christ did for us when He gave all of Himself away for the sake of love. Not part of Himself. All of Himself.
So today, as we move into the newest year, let us remember that when we love like this the parts of our hearts that we give away do return to us. They are worked over and rubbed raw, but by that we are changed into who we are meant to be:
A people with the largest of hearts who would give ourselves to others, even when the cost is great.
{I’m glad to be home. Thank you for allowing me a couple weeks of sabbatical. Happy New Year to you all!}
This is beautiful. Thank you Sarah.
thank you lindsay! =)
This is beautiful Sarah. Welcome home.
thanks friend! miss you!
A wonderful point, Sarah – that when we follow Him, we change for the better. Thanks for writing!
thank you sonika!!
Sarah,
Welcome Home.
May you Be Continually Filled to Overflowing with Love from the Father that you may continue to Love your family, the hard people, those whom God puts in the way of your heart . . . And all of us whom God has put you in the way of our hearts to receive His Grace-filled Love thru your heart, which is overflowed upon the cyber page.
{Hug} Love Ya, Susie
so sweet! thank you so much Susie. Blessings to you too in this new year! =)
welcome home, sarah.
lovely and inspiring words.
XO!
thank you denise!! =) xo
Oh Sarah you have no idea how timely this post is in my life. Just exchange the 7 year old daughter for a 15 year old daughter who is being very hard to love at the moment, and you’ve written about my life. Thank you for posting this. It allows me to take another deep breath and keep going.
deep breath!! i’m sorry it’s hard right now. hoping you can find joy today susanna! =)
“Sometimes love works our hearts down to the nub.” Beautiful, beautiful.