The Courage to Love ~ Counting the Cost

Greetings Dear Reader,

We have established there is a sacrifice involved in love.  We know there is always cost involved in loving others.  It is only wise to count that cost.  It is only prudent to understand what we sign up for going into the mix.

The cost involved in loving others may be one of the highest costs there is.  Let us look at the vows we make for marriage as an example.  We promise to love for better or worse unless it becomes worse than we imagined.  We promise for richer or poorer unless we do not live the status we want.  Even the sickness or health problem becomes conditional.

That is the problem.  We place conditions on our love for others.  We do not limit to marriage the ways in which we limit our commitment to love.  We love others unless they cross some objective line we create.  It is the creation of that line that is a problem.

The cost of loving others means that we cannot have lines that limit our choice to love.  If they disagree with our social or political views they are still worthy of love.  If they have faith that differs from ours we are still required to love.  If they cut us off in traffic we must love them.  The cost is that we set aside everything. 

Our pride, possessions, and wants are all the cost of loving others.  Everything material and marginal is subject to being surrendered to loving others.  All of our choices indicate our wiliness to love.  I must not hold on to anything that hinders my ability to love others.  It is how we destroy each other.  I must be willing to do anything for love; face any rejection, make any sacrifice, and have the courage to love no matter what it takes.  That is the cost of love.    

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”

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