Broken love - Perfect love | Post 4 | Love and freedom series

For a long while, I avoided anything related to the promise of love from persons of the opposite sex.

It's not that I didn't want love,

It's that I stopped believing in its existence.

It never made sense to me how people could say "I love you," to someone, yet still proceed to cause the person destruction.

As I've become more open to understanding love, I've been able to learn more about it.

I've learnt that:

We're broken people,

And we express love as best we know - from a broken place.

It's not that we don't have a desire to love without hurting those we care about; it's that we know no other way to love but through our reality of hurt and brokenness.

I also learnt that:

Perfect love does exist.

God is the depiction of it.

In our own accord, we may pursue love, but our brokenness will always eventually come to the surface,

Because we know nothing but to love from our place of brokenness.

Though our brokenness comes to rise often, we are able to access love through surrender to the Perfector of love.