Thoughts inspired by a friend's musings on the lonely lives led by many gifted persons....
Very often people fall for the spark they see within you that they may even secretly wish they had for themselves. They may pretend the attraction is merely superficial but it may in fact be a deeper spiritual fascination that revolves around a unique characteristic that is beyond both of your understandings: The Gift.
It may be your intellect, your creativity, your artistic inclination, your eloquence, whatever. The fact is, these gifts are appendages, not the core of the person.
With time the real person is seen and not just the bearer of the gift, but the soul to which the gift is attached.
This is the point where one must consider whether for example, they truly love the pastor as a whole, whether they are in love with his gift of evangelism, or whether they were simply in love with the idea of being the pastor's wife.© 2011 Brian-Paul Welsh
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