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Greater Love


Love is to allow someone the choice to walk towards the precipice, knowing they might never return 

Love is to deny the urge to be the rescuer and to embrace the pain of a broken heart

Love is to see a part of you suffering time after time and not to intervene

Love is not knowing and still hoping whilst getting darkened whispers from afar

Love is hearing lie after lie and still believing

Love is to realise you are not the answer and point the way to the giver of life

Love is choosing to live alone rather than being someone else’s fix

Love is not being the provider for another’s compulsions

Love is allowing pain to be the healer

Love is never to stop praying and always watching

Greater love has no one, than he lay down his life for a friend

John Lowton      November 2023

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