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Valentine’s Day attracts a lot of superficial talk about love, but it strikes a chord in that we all want love in our lives. Maybe the holiday reminds us of how much we wish – and against all experience to the contrary – expect love to be simple: hearts, flowers, chocolates, and tender I love you’s.
But our lives teach us…..
When we read Exodus’s story of Israel’s flight into the desert, we usually observe the fickleness of the Hebrews – how they praise God one minute and turn around and complain the next. But when we find ourselves in our own spiritual wilderness period, it’s pretty easy to find things to grouse about.
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How many of us wake our children up for school because it’s so much easier than relying on them to do it for themselves? While we’re at it we might as well clean up their messy bedrooms, or do their laundry long after they could do it themselves.
These…..
As I’ve said before, one of the clearest metaphors of God’s love for us lies in the complicated love of a parent for a child. A parent “falls in love” with the child but quickly discovers that it’s not only impossible, but also imprudent to give the child whatever…..