Wow, way to smack me in the head with a question my constitution makes it practically impossible to answer, TPQ #9. I hope someone reading this gets to see the day when I stop calculating risks and rewards. In fact, I hope we all do, it's just improbable.
I gotta say here, again, it's time to stop calculating when it's about love...which is really all the time. And much of the time, it's gonna be excruciating to stop calculating personal risk and perceived benefit of loving one another without strings attached, but the thing is, it's always the right thing to do.
There's a girl in Zambia who shares my birthday, and I know her because I am working with a project that provides her community with school supplies, clean water, health care, etc. I wrote her a letter, which I have yet to send her, because she's just four years old right now. But I have the letter waiting, and as I was cleaning up during my move, I found it again and I read it to myself. The synopsis is this:
God's love to you is infinite. It's perfect. It's always there in abundant supply. And if you can give away the love you receive from God to others, it will never be in vain. It might not result in the outcome you might like, but it will always be transformative, for the greater good. Ultimately, it will never fail, and so you need never regret acting out of love.
If I could actually live that, it'd be great. It requires dying to self, and letting the self be sustained by the love I claim to trust in so much. It's a great lifetime feat, and I need to pray for the willingness to pursue it.
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