As I read that, the thought crossed my mind: What if what God sees in me includes that part of me which my enemy sees as me...and rejects? Love that, too...especially the enemy.
Same purpose deeper is to love what God sees in us as God loves what he sees. Our deeper purpose or our cross to bear depending on how seriously we're taking ourself in the moment.
It is a tall order to love what God sees in us, and I found that in order for me to understand love, I had to first redefine love. My concept of love had gotten stuck back in the boy-girl love days.
Love tends to be hard to realize until we know what it means spiritually, according to me. My understanding of love...of life itself...began to expand when I was lifted into a deeper knowing through spiritual growth.
We stumble again over the conflict between our wants and our needs. We want love...the feeling of love...to equate with warm, wonderful and 100 percent secure. Then we can share it.
We need it to be an inner knowing of peace that cannot be held but only given...the more we give of our peace, with no expectation of return, the more at peace we are. Loved in a word.
That begins when we love what God sees in us.
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