Thoughts on Love and Freedom

"Often freedom is seen as the ability to do whatever you want. But freedom isn't being able to have whatever we crave. Freedom is going without whatever we crave and being fine with it."

-Rob Bell, SexGod

True Freedom is contentment.

"[Love/Eros] cannot of himself be what, nevertheless, he must be if he is to remain Eros. He needs help; therefore he needs to be ruled. [Love/Eros] dies or becomes a demon unless he obeys God. It would be well if, in such case, he always died. But he may live on, mercilessly chaining together two mutual tormentors, each raw all over with the poison of hate-in-love, each ravenous to receive and implacably refusing to give, jealous, suspicious, resentful, struggling for the upper hand, determined to be free and to allow no freedom..."

-C.S.Lewis, The Four Loves

True Love is willing to lose for freedom

over demanding its own in bondage.

"...the truth will set you free."

-Jesus, John 8:32

"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth."

-Paul, I Cor. 13:7

True Love sets free.

"...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

-Paul, II Cor. 3:17

True Love is True Freedom.

Not Psalm 22 exactly

My God, My God! Why have I forsaken you?
Why do I remain distant?
Why do I ignore my heart's cries for help?

Everyday you call to me, my God, but I do not answer.
Every night. I hear your voice, but
I do not listen.

You are holy...

(To me:) Do not stay so far from God,
for trouble is near
and no one else can help me.

My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax,
melting within me.
My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
I have laid myself in the dust and left myself for dead.

O Lord, why do I stay away?
You are my strength--I must come quickly to you!

Rescue me from myself.

Snatch me from the jaws of the lion
of numb complacency,
and from the horns of these wild oxen
of chaos, disorder, and decay.

The poor will eat eat and be satisfied.
All who seek the Lord will praise him.
Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy.