Anchoring Love: When the Heart Seeks What Cannot Leave
Understand why our deepest loves often bring pain, and how redirecting the heart's attachment to the Eternal brings lasting peace.
Loving something intensely—a person, a time of life, a beautiful place—often comes with an underlying sadness: the fear of losing it, or the ache when it is gone.
Love's Strange Pain
The heart has an infinite capacity to love, designed for something permanent. When you pour this boundless, infinite love into things that are temporary and fragile, the heart suffers because its nature rebels against endings.
Man has been given a boundless love. If he directs this love to transient, mortal things, he suffers the agony of separation in the very midst of connection.
Think of a time when loving something deeply made you anxious about losing it. What was the root of that anxiety?