..No fear in Love...

"I want to be known and loved anyway. Can you do this? I trust by your easy breathing that you are human like me, that you are fallen like me, that you are lonely, like me. My love, do I know you? What is this greater gravity that pulls us so painfully toward each other? What do we not connect? Will we be forever in fleshing this out? And how will we with words, narrow word, come into the knowing of each other? Is this Gods way of meriting grace, of teaching us of the labyrinth of His love for us, teaching us, in degrees, that which He is sacrificing to join ourselves to Him? Or better yet, has He formed our being fractional so that we might conflude one great hope, plodding and sighing and breathing into one another in such a great push that we might break through into the known and being loved, only to cave into a greater perdition and fall down at His throne still begging for our acceptance? Begging for our completion?"
- Donald Miller "Blue Like Jazz" Chapter on Love


"Fear" by Sarah Mclachlan

"Morning smiles
Like the face of a newborn child
Innocent unknowing
Winters end
Promises of a long lost friend
Speaks to me of comfort

But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
Here in this lonely place
Tangled up in our embrace
Theres nothing Id like
Better than to fall
But I fear I have nothing to give

Wind in time
Rapes the flower trembling on the vine
Nothing yields to shelter it
From above
They say temptation will destroy our love
The never ending hunger

But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
Here in this lonely place
Tangled up in our embrace
Theres nothing Id like
Better than to fall
But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
I have nothing to give
We have so much to lose..."

so I know my friend Josh would find this annoying that I just put an exerpt from a chapter up here and a song lyric, but I felt these two went beautifully together... from what this song means,and the hope in love that Donald Miller talks about I think is a beautiful combination that is very inspiring.