What is Love Anyway ?


To set the scene - The women of Jerusalem are giving Claudia Procula counsel to leave Pontius Pilate, her husband who is cold and cruel to her -their counsel is merely from the humanistic point of view as the tell her that she would be just in walking away from the covenant she made.
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And Claudia would answer them,
"O women of Jerusalem, You speak as if there were no God.
As if there were no tender rod to comfort me and lead me through the darkest valley of my fewAnd painful years, as if there's not, nor should be higher aims than what you've dreamed for man and wife. As if the path were safe, nor any cliff be close or any bitter wind be in my face, nor I be sinned against, or feel this constant grief so long, my death would be relief.
How many women do you give such shallow counsel? As I live,O, women of Jerusalem who counsel thus, I pity them.
As for myself, there is one love, one covenant, one vow, above all married bliss or pain, and I once held the bloody price on my own lap, and heard him, dying, say to me enough to show the way a covenant is kept. Now go, and learn what God designs to show, when Pilate crucifies his wife, and she is faithful all her life."
~ excerpt from poem by John Piper called Pilate's Wife

This specific part of the poem gives me much comfort as I am in tremendous pain from a recently broken relationship. It makes my heart say "AS if there is not more to this life than the hope for marital bliss or the trauma of painful break ups......"
There is a tender rod to comfort me through my darkest times, there is a shepherd who loves His sheep. I'm so glad I'm a sheep.

Even as I sit here at work trying to focus on....work......I wonder what the plan could be in all and through all of the recent heartache.......why am I not certain that we're doing the right thing in breaking up even with the doubts I had?

True love endures all things. Can it endure 3 break ups ??
With our God anything is possible........His love is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit and it makes it's object Holy. Oh, how I want Holy love more than life. To be with our Father and never weep over brokenness and inperfect love ever again.........

My times are in His Hands.........Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

Sorrowful and longing to rejoice,
Jen2