When you submit to love, you lose control.
In relationships you always lose control.
If prayer is relationship you always lose control, you become passive.
When you even skim the edges of relationship, you submit to mystery and lose control.
Mystery isn’t something that you cannot understand—it is something you can endlessly understand!
If you have control over your relationship, then it is not friendship or marriage, it would be abuse, it might even be rape.
Love is not love if I don’t lose control, give the reins to the other person.
Marriage or friendship or intimacy would be so much easier if there wasn’t another person involved, but then it would be meaningless, too.
When and if you love, you lose control.
Without love and relationships, life has no colours, and no meaning.
In the beginning was the Relationship. God is Relationship. God is Community. God is Love.
(Thanks to William Paul Young and Richard Rohr.)
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