But sometimes that's how life is. (Just don't read it if you're feeling down already)
Sometimes I just feel so alone, I have friends, I have fun,
I come home, I put on my music, I watch movies, I talk with my family.
But then, I feel alone.
Alone is one of the most crippling emotions.
If God said "It is not good for man to be alone" then why are we left alone?
Why does our society of noise not fill the emptiness of the silence?
Why is quiet so unsettling and depressing?
Why must we surround ourselves with people who don't actually care?
Why don't WE care?
What have we come to?
When did we forget love?
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
4 comments:
Argh! I hear ya.
I decided to memorize 1 Cor 13 a while ago.. but never got around to it. Especially the love is.... section.
I think there are many people who dp feel this. Myself included. Sometimes its worse, sometimes better.
As for people who don't care... we aren't perfect, I would say I care mostly, but, even recently(yesterday) I came to a place where I sorta ran out of "love"... perhaps thats when we need loving the most?
"when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." I can't wait.
Peace be the journey. :)
Mykl.
Good questions :)
Have you seen the 'silence' devotional by Rob Bell?
Everyone feels this way at some point. Everyone.
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