Loving More Effectively

One of James Olthuis' patient journaled about "being led to a place where I can, in fact, love more effectively." The patient described how he had "to gain some sense of myself as having a legitimate stand in the world of love, a place where I can own love for myself. It is one thing to say you want to love, but quite another to know that love can go through you, because you're not blocking it off by the refusal to be loved yourself." (page 212, The Beautiful Risk)