LOVE AND PAIN

The pain experienced by some people is so strong that their longing for love is unsatiable. Ironically, those who desire so much love very often miss the love that is made available to them. They refuse to see it or they may not recognize the grace offered. In a sense this is what makes pain more painful. When love has been deprived from someone at a very early age, it is hard for a person to recognize it, even though the longing for it maybe intense. And because love can be mistaken as something aggresive, it can be treated with suspicion, thus discouraging the giver from pursuing his good intentions. Eventually making its potential beneficiary more isolated.

Perhaps it is the expectation on how love should come to them. Or it is even the idea that love should come as the solution to their immediate problems that blinds people from receiving God's grace. Yet it is not the nature of love to solve problems. Don't you see this? Is it the food that you give to the hungry that really makes them happy? Food definitely satisfies the pangs of hunger. But it is the eventual realization that someone really cares about him that brings the joy to that person. A sum of money given to a financially strapped individual may bring relief, but the experience of someone willing to share with you what he has is what moves a soul to tears.

What then does love do if it does not solve problems? Jesus loves all of us so much and proved it by his willingness to die on the cross. He died a violent death, if that is what is needed to wake us up. In Matthew's 11:30 Jesus said "take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart; and you will find rest, for my yoke is good and my burden is light". Jesus did not say if you follow me you will not carry any burden. Yet many find rest in carrying a burden when they follow Christ. Perhaps it is the assurance that "I am with you" in your difficulties and suffering that gives you that joy to persevere. It is not the freedom from a yoke that gives us happy. But it is the consolation that someone recognizes our pain, walks with us in our sufferings, helps us with our burdens and smiles with us as He wipes and sweat and tears that give us true joy.

Love 愛情

Love 愛情

　　I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
　　我愛你，不是因為你是一個怎樣的人，
而是因為我喜歡與你在一起時的感覺。
　　No man or woman is worth your tears,
and the one who is ,won't make you cry.
　　沒有人值得你流淚，
值得讓你這麼做的人不會讓你哭泣。
　　The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside
them knowing you can't have them.
　　失去某人，最糟糕的莫過於，
他近在身旁，卻猶如遠在天邊。
　　Never frown, even when you are sad,
because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
　　縱然傷心，也不要悉眉不展，
因為你不知是誰會愛上你的笑容。
　　To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
　　對於世界而言，你是一個人；
但是對於某人，你是他的整個世界。
　　Don't waste your time on a man/woman,
who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
　　不要為那些不願在你身上花費時間的人而浪費你的時間。
　　Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
　　愛你的人如果沒有按你所希望的方式愛你，
那並不代表他們沒有全心全意地愛你。
　　Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
　　不要著急，最好的總會在最不經意的時候出現。

　　Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.