A Word for a Tuesday

"Love is beautiful, but it is also terrible--terrible in its determination to allow nothing blemished or unworthy to remain in the beloved."

~ Hannah Hurnard ~

Early this morning I saw this quote, but nothing came to mine and I was just not going to post anything today. Well, this afternoon I was reading a post and the writer was talking about missing children who were at a Youth outing. That got me to thinking about my grown daughters who I miss and the quote. Love is beautiful when a Mom like me who can listen to a daughter on the phone tell about a cooking class she is giving to teens from her church and be content that I can not be there to see her in action. Then it can be so terrible when another daughter calls just before Christmas to tell me that her boyfriend of 5 years just broke up with her. It was terrible love when I could not be there to hold her in my arms and let her cry. Love for this daughter who can state in her blog the real reason for the break up for her blog friends to see. Terrible in its determination to allow nothing blemished or unworthy to remain in the beloved means to me that God wants me to come to him clean of sin. We can come to him clean as white snow after our water baptism like a hymen says "Whiter that Snow"