True growth in holiness is a growth in willingness to be loved and to love.
My definition of love is no resistance...which I got from resist not evil (Matthew 5:39) and resisted until I was able to go deeper into the spiritual meaning. Face it, if it's in the Bible, it's spiritual whether we know it or not.
I believe a willingness to be loved and to love is a willingness to feel fear and to trust God's will in the midst of it. Which pretty much describes surrender...who has that for their life's goal? Certainly not those of us as we started our spiritual journey. Which proves the truth of we must go beyond reason to love.
Love is of God...love is God. If we think we can figure either out, we need to go back, start again, and surrender our self...again. We cannot get there by reasoning.
In learning to love, my best result came when I gave up looking for the perfect man, got me a seven-pound Maltese, and fell madly, hopelessly in love with Ari of Aslan...may he bound across Heaven at will.
Thank you.
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