Thin Red Line

I didn't write the following post however it is very fitting for me at this time in my life. I have a book I purchased while living in Los Angeles and since moving to San Francisco it has been sitting in the truck of my car. The book is titled Soul Cavings and talks about what it takes for a human to be really, genuinely FULFILLED.
Thank you Erwin McManus for every.single.word.

"When You Give Up On Love, Everything Else Seems To
go with it-
joy,
hope,
forgiveness,
compassion-
they're all interconnected.
But you might wonder to yourself: What if I never find love? After all, you can't be held responsible if you've searched for love, risked in love, even fought for love, and yet have always found it unrequited. When loves does not come to you, it breaks your heart, but when you do not give love away, it hardens your heart. One thing stranger than our need to love, which agains leads me to my conspiracy theory: We are designed for love.
I remember several years ago sitting in a theater out in Westwood watching Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line. Two things stood out to me: Jim Caviezel standing quietly in the lobby watching our reactions as we exited, and a haunting monologue in the middle of a war movie about the nature of love.

"My dear wife,
you get something twisted out of your insides by all this blood, flith, and noise.
I wanna stay changeless for you.
I wanna come back to you the man I was before.
How do we get to those other shores?
To those blue hills.
Love.
Where does it come from?
Who lit this flame in us?
No war can put it out, conquer.
I was a prisoner.
You set me free."

Ben Chaplin's Private Jack Bell asked our soul's deepest question. What is this thing called love? Where does it come from? Why are we so affected by its presence and its absence?
We cannot live unaffected by love. We are most alive when we find it, most devasted when we lose it, most empty when we give up on it, most inhumane when we betray it, and most passionate when we pursue. The human story seem more driven by thhe insanity of love than the survival of the fittest. When I was seventeen, rushing off without stopping for dinner, my mom would tell me, "You can't live on love." Maybe not, but you can't live without it.
Can you be honest enough to admit how love pulls you, woos you, eludes you, torments you- sometimes all in the same day? You were created for relationship. This is and always will be at the core of your being.
All of us have an intrinsic need to belong, and all of us are on a search for intimacy. No matter how many things about us are different, in this we are all the same-we all crave love. It is as if we are searching for a love we have lost. Or perhaps more strangely we are searching for a love we have never known but somehow sense it awaits us.
The most powerful evidence that our souls crave God is that within us there is a longing for love. We are all connected by a thin red line."


Love is the most organic, natural things we can possess. Give someone your heart, let them know to take care of it and in turn it will take care of you.
xoxoxox