To Love Is to Lose

To live is to love. To love is to lose. But to lose is to live. If we lose one part of our life, we become open to another part. If we love having young children at home, when they grow up and leave home the empty space created by their leaving opens the door to love something else — like the freedom to travel or to visit with adults without interruption. When something disappears, it opens the space for something else.

Loss opens new space with regard to faith as well. When the way we understood God as a child no longer helps us navigate the swirling waters of adult life, we sometimes give up faith all together. For those who continue to immerse themselves in the stories and rituals of faith, new insights into the character of the Divine can emerge.

- Dan Moseley, Lose, Love, Live

This quote in my e-devotional really spoke to my heart today. It reminded me that what I need to be striving to do is to be a loser. This is not the kind of message that the world embraces. Instead, we are pushed to be winners often times at the expense of others who are branded as losers. However, as the author states, it's only in losing that we can truly learn how to love and live. So, today my prayer has been, "Lord, make me a loser."
I hope you find these words both challenging and comforting in your journey as they were for me. Thanks for being a part of my journey!