"There has been a lot said about the desert of love! Love seeks the desert because the desert is where man is handed over to God, stripped bare of his country, his friends, his fields, his home. In the desert, a person neither possesses what he loves, nor is he possessed by those who love him; he is totally submitted to God in an immense and intimate encounter.” –Servant of God Madeleine Delbrêl (dec 8)
Love does not possess. It is completely free. The Lover is the Beloved’s and the Beloved the Lover’s not because one possesses the other, but because they have freely chosen to give themselves to each other. This is an eternal choice, made at every moment, freely.
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