Broken Love...

Love is something everybody wants, even craves, in their innermost being. Love makes us feel wanted, cared for, special. It gives us a feeling of worth, of importance, of belonging. Even I, the loner, often the social recluse, find myself desiring to be loved. We all need it, we all want it, We all long to fall in love, to belong to, or with someone. Love makes us feel completed...
Some people will balk at that thought, saying that they don't need another person to be complete, but that's not what I said. I didn't say another makes us feel completed, I said love makes us feel complete.
The really amazing thing about love, and the experience of love, is that, at it's very best, it is broken love. It is fallible, it is vulnerable, it is fragile. It is broken because we live in a broken, sinful world, and all in it cannot be anything but broken. And still we crave that broken love. Why?
Because our very nature is made from love, out of love, to live in community with love. Our world was once perfect and that love in it was perfect, for God is love. God's very essence, His very being is love, and out of that love He created us to live in community with Him, to love and worship Him. And the beauty of it all is this; one day this world will cease its groaning and be made right. One day our sin will be eliminated and that love we now crave in its broken state will flow pure and perfected, and we will be complete...food for thought...