Only Love
--Love Is Blind, by Garden of Gloom "To Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy..." --Jude, verse 24 For I am finding out that love will kill and save me Taking the dreams that made me up And tearing them away. But the same love will take this heart that's barely beating And fill it with hope beyond the stars. Only love. ---The Beauty and The Tragedy, Trading Places I sometimes wonder if those of us with more conservative theological beliefs (original sin, the atonement on the cross, blood redemption, belief in a literal heaven and hell, bodily resurrection, inspiration of Scripture) forget about love. In the passage from Jude, the writer says we will be presented in God's presence without fault, but also with great joy! God loves us so much that there will be great joy when we are finally in His uninterrupted presence and made perfect. It hasn't happened, but it will, and the antici...