YOU CUT ME OPEN AND I KEEP BLEEDING LOVE FULL
The walls narrow our ability to enjoy the full range of emotions that are aĬhristians sometimes confuse godly self-control with ungodly emotional deadness. We construct walls around our hearts to keep the pain out, but the problem is they also keep love out. Our self-preservation yields a passionless version of love (by passion, I am not referring to sex alone but to all the ways that God calls us to live passionate lives, fully giving of our hearts to Him and to others). Close enough to get warm, but not close enough to experience the intensity of the flame. Yet the hunger for love within us draws us back to the fire we just learn not to get too close. We parallel that lesson in relationships. We can totally relate to how a child learns to avoid the stove after touching a hot stove eye. What about those who give their heart in unhealthy ways?Īh, another blog for another day but for today I want to look at how we move toward God and toward others in healthy life-giving ways by allowing our hearts to risk love, to thaw in the warmth of loving relationships. There could be so many ‘qualifiers’ here. Repentance is the process of deeply acknowledging the supreme call to love…” ( The Wounded Heart). “It is recognizing that our self-protective means of avoiding hurt have not ushered us into real living (the reckless abandon to God that ultimately leads to a deep sense of wholeness and joy) or to purposeful, powerful relating. If we’ve closed our hearts to love, do we need to repent?ĭan Allender so beautifully speaks of repentance as it relates to our self-protective ways of relating. How much of what we call love is self-serving or neediness? What is the difference between healthy love and unhealthy ‘love’?Ĭan we call it love if it is not true in the sense of God’s design? Is it worth the risk of being hurt again? We were hard wired by God Himself to live life deeply engaging both God and humanity!Īnd yet the hurts and disappointments of life can lead us to close our hearts off as if to instinctively avoid potential pain, but the loneliness cries out from our hearts and draws us to ‘bleed love again’. She tries to cut off the vein of her love, but yet she keeps bleeding love. Yet the lyrics hint of an unhealthiness in the new relationship. “But nothing’s greater than the risk that comes with your embrace.Īnd in this world of loneliness, I see your face.” As her story continues, she speaks of finding a new love and the risk of becoming vulnerable again. Leona sings of how she’d cut her heart off from love after being hurt and disappointed in her relationships. Time starts to pass before you know it you’re frozen.”
Once or twice was enough, and it was all in vain. “Closed off from love, I didn’t need the pain. Leona Lewis’s recording gave voice to strong sentiment for millions. “You cut me open and I keep, keep bleeding love.”
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