What’s It Like to Be Truly Loved?
We are most human when we know what it’s like to love and to be loved
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” — George Eliot
There is no experience like that of being loved. Nothing could ever compare to it. No wealth could ever suffice to replace it. No amount of power or popularity could ever substitute for its worth.
To be loved is to be noticed by another soul. It is to be truly seen for who we really are. It is to be accepted, to be cherished and to be remembered.
When we are loved, we feel valued, and we finally believe that we are precious.
The rest of the world can walk away, but as long as we know that somebody out there loves us, we are consoled. There is nothing that can take away our happiness.
When we are loved, we feel that we have finally found our true home. We are no longer lost because we have been found. We are no longer blind because we now see, and we are indeed seen for the core of who we are.
We can never underestimate the value of loving another person. It is this experience alone, this encounter, this event, that changes us and makes us whole.
We have often imagined love to be something we must pursue, something we could hardly grasp no matter how much we persevered. Yet in another sense, love is something to which we must surrender to, something we must allow to take hold of us. It is that point when we finally stop running and let ourselves be grasped, to finally stop searching and let ourselves be found.
Let love find you and take hold of you. Surrender, and taste what true freedom means, what true joy feels like. It is no longer running, no longer trying to escape or flee. It is finally being where you’re supposed to be. It is being able to rest in knowing you have been sought, and you have been loved all along.
To love is to surrender, and in that surrender, we find true freedom and happiness.
“May your love for me be like
the scent of the evening seadrifting inthrough a quiet window
so I do not have to run
or chase or fall
… to feel you
all I have to do
is
breathe.”
— Sanober Khan
“The Lord, your God, is in your midst…
he will rejoice over you with gladness,
he will renew you in his love…”
-Zephaniah 3:17 (NRSVCE)
Jocelyn Soriano is the author of Mend My Broken Heart:
“No matter how much we want to, there is no magic formula in healing a broken heart. There is no time-frame also. What we need is to know that our suffering is not meaningless, that the love we have given was never wasted, and that somewhere beyond all our pain, there is hope, hope that could help us endure the hurt we’re going through.”
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