LOVE IN SPITE OF ….

Love in spite of….
That’s love.
It takes a long time
and a lot of inner conversations –
especially after a hurt or
a misunderstanding
or a broken expectation – to get this.
The scene, situation or classroom
for this learning is usually
marriage or family – or
any big relationship.
We first have to be stopped,
stuck, struck, to see, to hear,

to twist and turn different “What if’s”
and of course, this is not love yet.
Love is a choice, a decision,
an “Oh no!” and then, “Oh, okay!
I know!” within self, within God,
unless we’re a practicing or
non-practicing atheist.
That can make it different or more difficult,
but once we make that decision to love
in spite of what happened
or is happening with mom, dad,
spouse, son, daughter, another,
then … then something new can erupt.
Get that and you can come
off the cross and out of the tomb

and rise to a new morning – a joyful life.
Don’t get it – you’re still
somewhere, sometime, on some Friday,

or some other day of the week - but not

yet celebrating an Easter Sunday morning,

catching fish and breakfast with Jesus. Amen. (1)

(1) Cf. John 21

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2010

This is the 1000 item on this blog -

thanks to the idea of a "Quote for the Day."

Praise God! In the future, I'll try

to have more Reflections -

if you're following all this. Amen.