LOVE UNTIL IT HURTS

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”  -Mother Teresa

While reading these wise words from Mother Teresa this afternoon, I realized how much it applies to what we will be doing up at camp next week.  Even at the end of the first day, our bodies will start to feel the pain of altitude and running around our campus; up and down the stairs and hills, around the lake and back, planning every little detail before our little ones arrive.  Then, at the end of the second day, we’ll begin to feel the physical “hurt” of little sleep, dwindling nutrients, & a lack of caffeine as well as the emotional “hurt” of a heart stretched and stressed for our children.  As the week goes on, we will push on and continue to LOVE until it hurts, until the hurt is replaced with even more love and all the while knowing, when we return back home, we’ll know that we did the best we could and LOVED UNTIL IT HURT to be filled again with even greater love.