I was reading an essay about broken hearts and love and I came across this:

“The love we were meant to experience has been broken. Many of us try to stop loving and keep others from loving us. But because God is love, that approach causes us to move farther and farther from whom God meant us to be. We become less and less like God.

How did God respond? He responded by first doing the one thing that we can’t do; He paid the price of betrayal so that all relationships could be made right again. God loved more, He loved in a reckless and even more passionate way than He did before. God’s love is what healed the betrayal. That’s how we seek healing for our broken hearts, by loving more. We come together with our brothers and sisters, and we learn what it means to love one another.”

The rest of the essay is here. It’s a good read. It’s basically about how we gaurd ourselves from love because of the hurt we’ve experienced or are scared to experience. That’s something we all are guilty of and it’s sad. It really spoke to me because I see so many of my friends in pain because they’ve had their hearts broken and I remember how much that hurts.

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Here are some pictures I just got developed from my SLR:

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I know we haven’t said enough
but I know I’ve never loved this much.
– Mates of State.

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