Time for Love

A prerequisite to love is a willingness to lay down my agenda, my plans, time frame, priorities, motives and pleasure, in order to stop long enough to enjoy another, to help another, to wed our spirits in a selfish non-productive dance of intimacy. If I don't, or can't do this, then I will skate all my life, past love, past ministry, past the very germ of life, to become in the end a man who lies cold in a coffin, while a room full of people, "put off" for being there look at their watches. This is why anyone who thinks they love God, and are unwilling to be a seed that dies (wasting time for love) is only fooling themselves. And anyone who thinks they love God, and are not willing to spend the time in prayer reflective of that devotion, suffer from the delusion that they know God.