Love Dangerously

A mindful man’s no fool to fall in love with deception’s deities.  Every heart has its heartbreaker, a perpetual line of promises that can’t be kept.  But a mindful man is lonely too.  Shields of detachment appear to guard the heart from hurt, and free it for more diverse affections.  But such precautions prevent love’s very substance—the risk of loss and the gain of intimacy.  I tell you, no man has loved who has not first killed his self-served spirit and aligned his soul with his mate’s at any cost.  Such devotion denies the human nature of self preservation, a chain of habit broken by our divine example in Christ Jesus.  Love is a purpose and a privilege, a calling, a vocation, not a ball and chain but a death sentence and a new life wrapped in one.  Love dangerously, or don’t.