From whence love stems

While online today, I saw this quote, and thought it to be true.



"Love which stems from created things is like a small lamp whose light is sustained by being fed with olive-oil. Again, it is like a river fed by rainfall; once the supply that feeds it fails, the surge of its flow abates. But love whose cause is God is like a spring welling up from the depths. Its flow never abates, for God alone is that spring of love whose supply never fails."


----- St. Isaac the Syrian (Isaac of Nineveh), 7th century



I think for we who are creatures, we must tend and feed the love we have for others, or it will fade to something less than it was. But if the love we have for others is grounded in, undergirded by, the love of God.. then He supplies what's needed to sustain it.

Nice thought to take into the weekend. :)