Love is a major inconvenience at times. It is rarely efficient. It is much more complicated than just listing the pros and cons and getting on with it. Furthermore, love challenges my self-centeredness, and sometimes it requires me to give more of myself than I want to give. Sometimes love hurts, or at least it makes me vulnerable. All the time, love is risky, and there are no guarantees.
And yet love is the deepest calling of the Christian life, the standard by which all of our lives is measure. It is the standard by which Christ evaluated Himself at the end of His life. ‘Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end’ (John 13:1).
Ruth Haley Barton
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