I recently learn a more positive interpretation of this commandment. Notsomuch that we love him with absolute, perfect devotion and intensity, but rather that we love him with and through all the seasons of our lives: in holiness and sin, in joy and despair, in wisdom and folly, in fervency and apathy. To love him is to offer up our entire existence to him, knowing that whatever we give has already been made acceptable and pleasing by his love for us, by our love for him...
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I recently learn a more positive interpretation of this commandment. Notsomuch that we love him with absolute, perfect devotion and intensity, but rather that we love him with and through all the seasons of our lives: in holiness and sin, in joy and despair, in wisdom and folly, in fervency and apathy. To love him is to offer up our entire existence to him, knowing that whatever we give has already been made acceptable and pleasing by his love for us, by our love for him...
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