Christian Love and Hardships
Hardships. today i’ll like to think about hardships. hardships are hard, are painful, are scary, are uncertain, are unsure. esp if you see ppl you know and care about in pain and in suffering, it’s not a peaceful sign. yet in the midst of it, you see attempts to be compassionate and signs of love, that’s comforting and encouraging and supported.
dealing with a group of ppl is always harder, due to personality, character, opinions, upbringing, reactions differences. but the christian community is called to embrace all these differences and to even look beyond these, to love.
what is to love? it’s not to feel a sensational feeling, it’s got nothing to do with that. it’s not to show only mediocre expressions of care. but the christian love is an action word, to carry out the action of caring being concerned, to carry out the action of encouraging someone, listening to someone, being silent to connect with the other’s pain deep within. beyond the actions, it is ultimately an attempt to feel all these actions in the heart.
can this be possible? with people whom you find no reason to make such an effort? even with people you find the reason but not the strength? that’s why they say, love is not a human action, it’s a superhuman action.
back to hardships. i think love complements hardships. without hardships, why would we need love from the other? but hardships in a group also gels the group together, i guess. perhaps, this is really living life - to experience hardships and to be united through them. how we are really living fully alive! fully living the hardships and difficulties and fully living the unity and fully living the compassion and love. then we must be giving glory to God.
