Listen To Love

Those of us who have identified with Jesus the Christ, have been taught a very special kind of love, which among other things, is a listening love. It’s not the kind of love that says “How can I use you for me, and how can I use you to give me pleasure and how can I use you to exalt me?” It is the love that asks, “How can I give of myself in order that you can be fulfilled?”

The famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, designed some unusual buildings. On a university campus in Florida stands a library designed by Wright with an extremely low ceiling, so low that if you are six feet tall and not careful, you keep bumping your head. A man who was having this trouble asked why it was that Frank Lloyd Wright had designed such a building. And the answer was, “This is a characteristic of his architecture because he hated tall people.” How typical this is.…