Strange Love

"The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. The love of man comes into being through that which is pleasing to it."

Martin Luther, in the Heildelberg disputation. from the 2nd comment on this post.

This just floored me. At least in regard to falling in love and the creative imperative in marriage that dares to call itself "Christian". !!!

Impossible love

.... 'In this is love, that we become pathetic nothings. Forlorn, forsaken, foolish, empty, and pathetic. Only so do we live. In any sense whatsoever. According to the gospel, the pathetic life of love is the only truth, the only way, and the only life."

Halden