IRRATIONAL LOVE

Proverbs 2:25 says, "May your father and mother be glad; may she who gave you birth rejoice!" Make no mistake about it. Children are treasures from God — "a reward from Him,' we read in Psalm 127:3 – and they should be treated accordingly. They should be prized and cherished. They should hear tens of thousands of times that their parents are crazy about them. They should grow up in an environment in which expressions of love seem as natural as breathing.

One child-development expert cited studies that indicate that people who grow up to become healthy, well-adjusted adults can almost always look back to one parent who loved them irrationally. (That was the expert's word.) People who perpetually struggle through life and do not become well-adjusted adults or people who sink into the extremes of depression, crime or hyperachiemement usually cannot recall being irrationally loved by ether parent. The researcher concluded that in order to grow up normal, every human being has to be loved abnormally.

I think the writer of Proverbs knows that the human heart needs irrational love.

-- Bill Hybels in Making Life Work: Putting God's Wisdom into Action


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