This is an excerpt from the Coffee Table book entitled "About Women" I've found this very meaningful reflections about Love. I just want to stop thinking about others things aside from research and program development.
It says that there is a mystery which lies at the very heart of love both human and divine. Every couple who decided to knit their two hearts into one, touch this mystery in a very special way. This mystery is love's issues - the daily question lovers must pose to each other "what would you have, that you give me your pain or that I share with you my joy?" "How one must bleed to make that choice. For either way means giving up part or even all of oneself. Christ did not just share our pain. In his dying, he took all our pain upon himself. We wouldn't have the joy of the resurrection were it not for that. This gives the lead to rediscovering love, to rediscovering life. We do not discover and rediscover love and life unless we know how to lift the pain from "the other" and make it our own, and then know how to turn this into joy. This is beautifully expressed in the marriage ritual which exhorts couples "Sacrifice is difficult; only love can make it easy; and perfect love can make it a joy". Everytime we gaze at the bleeding heart of Christ, we are reminded of the Christian dialectic of love and pain. Love cannot grow without pain. For one truly loves, here is the measure of sacrifice. The only measure of love is to love without measure
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