Thursday, February 16, 2012

How Can Something So Wrong Feel So Right All Along?



You might probably be singing along this line of the song, “Catch Me I’m Falling For You”. Indeed, when we are in love, why is something so wrong seems so right all along? This uniquely human experience of loving someone and being love in return is a miracle in itself. It gives us a glimpse of the human capacity to rise above self. Somehow, it brings the person to a different level of seeing things.

The perspective changes so much that even the seemingly unforgivable offenses are now justifiable and understandable.  I think this is the goodness of love.  It allows the person to rise above human prejudices and look at the other as human like himself. This was the story of Isabel, a Taiwanese that has gone viral in the Internet. Her mother sold her when she was still 7 years old to a wealthy family who moved out to the United States. According to CNN, she endured a childhood of cooking, cleaning and beatings while she lived off the family's discarded scraps. She can barely read and was kept in squalid condition. It was only when she was in her 20’s that she was able to escape. She wanted to be reunited with her family. “This is the Mom who sold you, you want to find her?” asked the reporter and she answered, “Yes.” And if found, what would you say? With tears in her eyes, she said, “Mom, I love you so much. I just want to find you.” With the help of Taiwanese media and government she finally found her family and was reunited with her mother. She bore no grudges and she waited no explanation, she just wanted to see her Mom again.

Isn’t beautiful that justice is tempered with love? For justice without love is rude. When we are in love, we are capable of understanding the other beyond technicalities and become open enough to understand the motives lying behind the circumstances. The “something so wrong” now can be look at a second time around so the seemingly right can be proven. In short, in loving we become truly human, and in becoming truly human we become more an image and likeness of God. A God who on the cross we can ask, how can this be? How can something so wrong as crucifixion is so right all along?

Teach us O Lord to love like You. Amen.

by aats

3 comments:

  1. "Indeed, when we are in love, why is something so wrong seems so right all along? This uniquely human experience of loving someone and being love in return is a miracle in itself. It gives us a glimpse of the human capacity to rise above self. Somehow, it brings the person to a different level of seeing things."

    I totally agree.

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  2. Keep posting for your posts are really relevant to our society today....

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