I have been reading a superb book by Michael Mayne entitled 'Learning to Dance'. It is set out in chapters for each month and describes the season changes in the world around us, linked to the the season changes in our life journeys: forgiveness, love, pain, faith, nature, science etc.
In the chapter entitled 'The Dance of Love' he writes how love leaves a mark and he quotes a passage out of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone':
"Why couldn't Quirrell touch me?"
"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love... Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a visible sign... (but) to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give some protection for ever... It was agony for Quirrell, full of hatred, greed and ambition... to touch a person marked by something so good."
Michael Mayne links this with how love can often cost us: time, money and pain - but he doesn't link it with Christ's love for us. To me this passage really highlights what Christ has done for us.
When we were still far off, you met us in your Son and brought us home...
Because we are so loved by God, because Jesus died for us, we now have this protection; we are marked and changed by something so good, that we can never be the same :)
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