heartache and longing

Through whatever you are going through, there is heartache and longing... and through this, we learn so much about love, perhaps even more when you feel you have never had so little.

A quote from Walter Trobisch:

Love is a feeling to be learned.
It is tension and fulfillment.
It is deep longing and hostility.
It is gladness and it is pain.
There is not one without the other. Happiness is only a part of love - this is what has to be learned. Suffering belongs to love also. This is the mystery of love, its beauty and its burden.
Love is a feeling to be learned.
It pays to suffer lover's grief, if sacrifice is learned. The art of giving up, of letting go, is the most important art to be learned.

We tend to worry a lot.. about everything.. but think of this: Necessary, big things in our lives take place without us doing anything: birth, death, resurrection. Therefore, rest well in God's good love. Rest open hearted, open headed and open handed in His presence.

Be before Him in all surrender, submission and love.