This is love that doesn't spend much time worrying about what the rest of the religious community thinks.
This is love that never draws boundaries or imposes artificial limitations. This is love that risks what it already has to reach further and love more.
This is love that cares about you are, not simply about what you do because love knows that you are more than the sum of your choices.
It does not love because of the beauty of the beloved, so it does not cease to love when beauty is gone.
It meets all objections with "I love you", and not with pat answers and pity suggestions for self improvement.
Love acknowledges injury and grieves deeply.
Love hopes without qualification and risks enduring brokenness when hope is lost because love never trades pain for safety.
Love suffers well.
God will judge us one day; he must because he loves us. When he does he will find us wanting...every one of us. But he will find us wanting because we loved too much, and not because we loved too little.
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