this is a response i posted on someone else's blog early this morning...thought it portrayed well what i've been learning of love lately.
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re: to valarene-the whole soul mate thing is only something our Father will ever understand, if it's even something he cares anything about.

at least this is my conclusion after finding what seemed more to be my soul mate than anyone else-as if he were once a part of me, a brother, a father, a past lover. so close i wanted so badly to be one with him. and then choosing to let him go because he was going down a different path from me.

i see you in your mother, christine. wow. gorgeous. love, i'm learning, is a supernatural thing, where our savior, if we're open, is the only one that can navigate just what that means. again, it's a dying to oneself. He wasn't kidding about that.

THAT-the dying to oneself, i believe is exactly when our true selves re-birth themselves. and that is where redemption sprouts up.

we die to our expectations, we die to our needs. we die to what we think we need.

only THEN can He surprise me (THANK YOU JESUS FOR YOUR SURPRISES) with true, unconditional, love. better, so much better, than i could have ever chosen.