Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."
Interpretation
Life is a brief moment to express our love for others.
This quote by Henri Nouwen highlights the ephemeral nature of life and the importance of expressing love. It suggests that our time on Earth is limited, and thus, we should seize the opportunity to share our love with others while we can, emphasizing that love is a fundamental aspect of our existence.
In practice
Using this quote at a wedding toast to emphasize the importance of love in marriage.
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.
The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering β for us. And calling us to share in Godβs suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.
To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.
Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart.
Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.
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