Have you ever come face to face with the vacuum of love that exist within your soul? Have you ever had an unexplainable sense of loneliness even while you're standing in the middle of a crowd?At the same time you can be all by yourself and have a wonderful sense of connectedness with the world. You can enjoy being alone, but you can become lost in aloneness. Have you ever wondered whether you are the one person who simply could not be loved or was somehow born unworthy of love? Sometimes we'll go to unimaginable extremes to earn love, feel love, to be love. (Like spending $180 on 12 stalks of roses!?!?!) Loneliness can be lonely.
Claire Danes would be the last person you would expect to struggle with loneliness. Beautiful, talented successful. She starred next to Leonard Di Caprio in the 1996 version of romeo and Juliet. But in a recent interview she confessed "A part of me desire fame because I associated it with love...that was a mistake. Fame doesn't end loneliness."
Our need for love is intrinsic - it exist in all of us. Our soul craves intimacy.
We are created to know God and to know love. It is love that moves God towards us and love that pulls us towards him. Follow love and it will guide you to God
From the very beginning you were made for love.
It maybe hard to accept, but you are the object of God's love, and though you may not yet realise it, your soul longs to know this love. But it goes way beyond that. your search for intimacy explains our need for community, relationship, friendship and acceptance, it is expressed most deeply in our need for romantic love.
We all long to belong. We are created to know love and to give love. Our need to love is rooted in God, is not limited to him. love is not a limited commodity. love expands as we give it away. Love dies when we do not.
Without love there is no life. To love is to be fully human.
- Soul Cravings, E. R. McManus
Leo
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