It's about someone who comes to understand the difference between holy love and mortal love. One is flawed and undependable. The other isn't. Early in life, we confuse the two and get all bummed out about it when life doesn't go our way. We say God doesn't exist or doesn't love us. It's not true. We set a trap by believing the world would act the way God does, or that it would match up with our conceptions of love. We meet someone and the whole rush of divine love comes back! This time, it's all conflated with that person! Then, when that doesn't work out either, we're in the dumps again. This time thinking our world is in the crapper because that person left. But, again, we set a trap. Our experience of love needn't be dependent on the world. It needn't be dependent upon concepts or another persons behavior or anything. We could "leave our mind behind" and just live with open hearts. Be like children again. Holy love is the "kiss that supposed to last eternity"... but it doesn't because it obeys its own will and is given freely or "befalls on strangers, travels free." It's given, not taken. But traps are only set by me! God doesn't stop loving us, we stop feeling his love because we put all these conditions on it. We say, "I wouldn't suffer, if God loved me." But, eventually, you grow up and realize that love is just a four letter word. Love is what you make it. It's not a concept or a condition. It's an action. Kind of an annoying thing to hear from your ex-boyfriend, though. haha Poor Joan. I think Bob really did a number on her. ;)
It's about someone who comes to understand the difference between holy love and mortal love. One is flawed and undependable. The other isn't. Early in life, we confuse the two and get all bummed out about it when life doesn't go our way. We say God doesn't exist or doesn't love us. It's not true. We set a trap by believing the world would act the way God does, or that it would match up with our conceptions of love. We meet someone and the whole rush of divine love comes back! This time, it's all conflated with that person! Then, when that doesn't work out either, we're in the dumps again. This time thinking our world is in the crapper because that person left. But, again, we set a trap. Our experience of love needn't be dependent on the world. It needn't be dependent upon concepts or another persons behavior or anything. We could "leave our mind behind" and just live with open hearts. Be like children again. Holy love is the "kiss that supposed to last eternity"... but it doesn't because it obeys its own will and is given freely or "befalls on strangers, travels free." It's given, not taken. But traps are only set by me! God doesn't stop loving us, we stop feeling his love because we put all these conditions on it. We say, "I wouldn't suffer, if God loved me." But, eventually, you grow up and realize that love is just a four letter word. Love is what you make it. It's not a concept or a condition. It's an action. Kind of an annoying thing to hear from your ex-boyfriend, though. haha Poor Joan. I think Bob really did a number on her. ;)
[Edit: thought of more to say]