Charles Peguy, The Portal of the Mystery of Hope--
He who loves places himself, by loving,
By that very act, from then on, into dependence,
He who loves becomes the slave of the one who is loved.
It's normal, it's the common lot.
It's inevitable.
He who loves falls into slavery, consigns himself, puts himself under the yoke of slavery.
He becomes dependent on the one he loves.
And yet it's this very situation, my child, that God made for himself in loving us.
God has designed to hope in us, because he wanted to hope for us, wait for us.
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