Love is Complicated
Sometimes relationships end. Sometimes the end is neat and necessary and other times the end is messy, painful, and inconvenient.
Sometimes when relationships end, we give life to thoughts about the meaning of love. If relationships end, we may say that it's wasn't true love or we may say that we've never been loved. Many times we have an all-or-nothing approach to our understanding of love.
Sometimes when our former spouses or lovers conclude the relationship with hateful comments and condescending attitudes, we imagine that they were always incapable of receiving and giving love. We can sadly relegate the entire relationship and experience to lies, deception, and vice.
Love is complicated
It's not all good and it's not all bad.
Love is bittersweet. To know love and to be loved involves bitter and sweet experiences.
It's a blessing to know and feel love even if it was a fleeting feeling or experience. Love shapes us. The absence of love shapes us. Deep down we know what love feels like and we crave it.
God is love and we all are flickers of His great flame of love. All fleeting, complicating experiences with love help to point us back to God's perfect, pure, painless love.
Keep living!
Keep loving!
Love is complicated but it's very necessary.
Life without love is like a year without Summer.
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