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It is to love from the counterpart’s positionby 김인주

 

 

  “Adults don’t know~ They don’t know anything at all~”

 

This is part of a fun song and an expression often made by my eldest daughter who is going into 4th grade. I thought that I was treating her at her level—understanding her point of view—but I guess, to her, it didn’t look like that; so when I thought of that, my heart was not at ease.

 

During that time, my mother came and stayed for a month.
My aged mother was expressing her love and care in her own way, but that made me discouraged and depressed as I thought about how my mother was doing that and constantly worrying because I wasn’t properly putting in much effort.

 

It is definitely love. It is a heartrending love. It is because I love that I am able to understand and have the desire to treat my daughter better.

Although that time made me understand my mother who was born in a struggling time period, going through a lot of difficulties even more [than I did], I made up my mind to give the kind of love that the counterpart wants so that we would be happier together!!

I was then determined to transform and change my harden thoughts even if it was difficult. Although I, myself, thought that I was treating my mother comfortably while considering her heart, there may have been a lot of times when our hearts didn’t match.

 

This could have just been explained as the difference in the times that we were born in, but these important moments are too precious for them to be divided with a boundary; instead, we should jump over this wall so that we can love together with our beloved ones!
 

Surely, yes!!

Wouldn’t love be to put myself down and do the thing that my beloved one wants while thinking in that person’s position.

Only when that happens will I be able to do what my beloved really wants and provide true comforting in the heart. 

 

This would be the same with the love between God and us!

If the problem was the difference in the times of birth, how could we overcome the difference in time between us and God?

The answer lies within the love that the counterpart wants. It is effort.

 

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