A Quote for the Day

Music can be a prayer that rises from the heart filled with love, and joins with that Everlasting Love, the very Source of such a human love that leaps from the heart like a small child filled with the joy of seeing her beloved Father for the first time in her life.

In love there is no middle state. Either you love or you do not. Loving a little simply means not loving so much. Thank God our nature is so imperfect we can only love imperfectly, even the best of our love. And the Father knows this perfectly enough. So the Perfect Lover looks at the imperfect ones with so much compassion and burning love.

Love is more beautiful when given to imperfect people. [Photo by Jeff Kolker; courtesty of Fine Art America ]

Little acts of selfishness erode our capability to truly love. Eventually we discover ourselves knowing nothing but loving ourselves, and forgetting how to truly love others the way they should be loved.

A deep chasm oftentimes separates love and justice. Those who commit injustice are those who need love the most. And those who suffered injustice are, by human nature, the last people to provide that love.

Unlike the perfect and ever-giving love of God, human love is imperfect at best. Human love cannot give all the time; it also thinks of what it can get. It is the nature of mankind to need things for themselves, thus they need to get. The best that human love can attain is to give more than it prefers to receive. And this giving and taking go beyond those things that can be counted. It includes small things that are very valuable to the other. When human love fails, it is because the man or woman has sought to get or not give more than it gives or receives, respectively. And it is one more story in the tragic history of failed loves. But there is another way to turn the situation for the better. The person must go back to the love of God. There he or she will be nourished back, and learn to love again the way God loves even in his or her most imperfect ways.