{"id":9413,"date":"2022-01-12T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9413"},"modified":"2022-02-02T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T19:13:28","slug":"love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9413","title":{"rendered":"Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220125_122338-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220125_122338-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9405\" width=\"533\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220125_122338-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220125_122338-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220125_122338-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220125_122338-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220125_122338-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  How beautiful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  I agree, it is a nice day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes from the book No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet there can never be happiness in compulsion.  It is not enough for love to be shared:  it must be shared freely.  That is to say it must be given, not merely taken.  Unselfish love that is poured out upon a selfish object does not bring perfect happiness:  not because love requires a return or a reward for loving, but because it rest in the happiness of the beloved.  And if the one loved receives love selfishly, the lover is not satisfied.  He sees that his love has failed to make the beloved happy.  It has not awakened his capacity for unselfish love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hence the paradox that unselfish love cannot rest perfectly except in a love that is perfectly reciprocated:  because it knows that the only true peace is found in selfless love.  Selfless love consents to be loved selflessly for the sake of the beloved.  In so doing, it perfects itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gift of love is the gift of the power and the capacity to love, and, therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it.  So, love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.  Mark 5:29 (KJV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: How beautiful! Prodigal: I agree, it is a nice day today. 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