Blood of the Soul

Hmm. ..  So this morning I got distracted with this sorta odd thought. Love is kinda like the Blood of the Soul.

Without it, the soul really is sick. It is hard and cold, much like a dead body. Because without love, it really is dead. But with love, the soul is full of life. It is warm, soft and bright, just like a live person.

After pondering the though further, I realized that it really is true, but it is a little different from our body's blood.
If we give our love to God, our soul's blood, we do not suffer any want for it. On the contrary, God gives love back to us more than we could imagine. He is the source of all of our Love. Our souls cannot make their own Love, unlike our hearts which can make their own blood. But all of our Love comes from God. Hence, when a soul is separated from God by sin, it dies. Only God can restore it to life, and that is why he gave us the Sacrament of Confession.

But, if we give our Love to objects, we may lose it. The more we are attached to objects, it seems that we might lose more. Objects are not God. So the more Love we give to an object, the worse the situation becomes. It can become like an idol, and that is just spilling out our soul's blood for no reason, and offending God, the source of love, hence we waste our Love and lose it's source, killing our soul.

If we give our Love to immoral activities, such as addictions, or give too much Love to normal activities, such as eating, we get into the same situation. Our soul's blood is wasted, and it is cut off from the source of all Grace and Love.

If we give our love to people in an immoral way, such as when we objectify a person and love them for their Body, the same situation arises.

However, if we give our love to people for the sake of God, because He created them in his image, we do not lose that Love, and God will give us more for that. If we give our Love to activities or objects in a proper way which is in accordance with His will, again, we don't lose it, we gain it.

Of course, there are other ways to lose our Love. If we do not share it with others, if we hide away and reject anyone who comes near it, if we we allow hate into our soul, it will tear the soul from God, and the love will be lost.

Think of a pipe or tube that connects our Soul to God. Every time we commit a venial sin, we stick a pebble in the tube. As you can imagine, we can stick a lot of pebbles in it, but the pebbles will not block it, no matter how many there are. They will slow it, and deprive the Soul of the Love it needs slightly, but the pebbles can be dislodged by a surge of Love from the Soul to God, which is repentance asking for forgiveness, met with a surge of Love from God to the soul, when we forgives us.

 However, when we commit a Mortal sin, we completely block the tube with a huge boulder. Once there, the soul cannot move the boulder, no matter how hard it tries. It is dead, and may eventually ignore the boulder. The only way that the boulder is removed is when God sends a tiny leak of a grace called Repentance into the soul. The soul realizes the boulder there, and cries out to God, and He hears. The soul is moved by the grace to go to confession, and only then does the real action start.Then, God sends a Huge surge of Love down to the soul, smashing the boulder and restoring Life and Love to the poor soul.
The soul is forgiven, and the connection between God and the Soul is restored.

Something interesting to think about.