Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.
There are two things we can do when that happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
God loves Karel- even more than you do- and if you ask Him, He will give you His love for this man, a love nothing can prevent, nothing destroy. Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.
from The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom.
(oh the pearls in this book! My oldest kids are reading it as part of their 20th Century history studies and if you haven't read it, don't wait another day!)
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I saw the movie back in my college days, but never read the book. I think I will this winter.
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