THOUGHTS: BELOVED SOUL

Our deepest need is to be seen. We need meaning. We need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the psychically dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine. Most intimate relationship is that they are not romantic. To be truly seen, in all our innocence and glory is to be truly healed.

So many people say that they are looking for love, yet they are actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know of scars and triumphs of the person who lies in their arms. Many people who say they are looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. Real love entails readiness to die to who we were. Real love is comforting, bot be sure, but not always at first. In becoming romantic artists, we must piercing is not comfortable. It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develop in this world, covering our tender, gentler, inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss. Tears for every humiliating failure. Tears for every repeated mistake. Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strenght, trigger every weakness, mock every value and then leave you there to die.

The highest purpose of intimacy is to call forth the beloved's soul.