love

In the past week I've been thinking a lot about love. Not like, married with children kind of love, but the true, genuine, heart wrenching love that a person can have for another person. The kind of love where seeing them in pain makes your heart tie in knots and the tears burst from your eyes. The kind of love where all you can do is pray and pray and pray until God becomes sick of the pleading.

Not that He ever really does become sick of it.

Last week my best friend watched one of her dearest friends pass away right in front of her eyes while the authorities did nothing to stop it. And while I barely knew the boy, seeing the pain in my best friend's eyes when I first saw her made me weep. Those eyes, normally full of excitement and adventure and joy, were now endless pits of confusion and anger and despair. Something tore within me. And it was on Wednesday night driving home from her house, crying and screaming my prayers in the car that I realized that this is what it feels like to truly love somebody. I've never felt such empathy for anyone in my life, and I am not exaggerating when I say that I would do absolutely anything to make her feel a little more peace.

And it made me think that true friendship and true love is the kind where you would be willing to lay down your life for that person. How real this love has become!

And yet, this love that I feel for my best friend--is it even comparable to the love the Christ feels for each one of us? To feel the love that I feel for more than one person, for more than 10 people, for more than 100 people...the human emotional spectrum would simply explode. But Christ feels infinitely stronger love for each and every person He has created.

It scares me to think... would I do absoultely anything for Him?




...Dios demuenstra su amor en que, en que cuando todavia, eramos pecadores, Cristo murio por nosotros...