I came across this in my reading today and I thought you might like these words from Paulo Coelho who (in his latest book - Manuscript from Accra) writes about love - and uses a rose for illustration: We love because we need to love. Otherwise love loses all meaning and the sun ceases to shine. A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks, “Aren’t you tired of waiting?” “Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.” And yet, even when Love does not appear, we remain open to its presence. Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.
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AuthorJoel Kreger is a writer who grew up in Minnesota, spent many years of his life in Iowa and Wisconsin, and now lives in Minnesota. His life experience includes careers of serving 17 years as a Lutheran parish pastor, working 18 years as a public school teacher, and now writing as a novelist and blogger. Archives
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