The Name of Love

Henri J.M. Nouwen said, “Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.”

How true indeed. We want to be love so much that if others fall short of our expectations we find it hard to forgive. In the end we find that we too failed in many ways. We want to be richly loved yet we poorly love ourselves. May we always learn to forgive O Lord. Amen. 

by aats