A LOVER’S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD
What does ‘ A lover’s quarrel’ mean?
There are two elements he mentions:-(a) It is a quarrel (‘an occasion of complaint against a person or a person’s actions),Dissatisfaction, our restlessness with things as they are and our sense of what they may be.
(b) It is a lover’s quarrel - for example; we get angry with ourselves but we don’t give up on ourselves.
Often our quarrels with other’s are not a lover’s quarrel. We write them off because of some miss behaviour. Jesus said, “Love your neighbour, as you love yourself” ... a lover’s quarrel.
Make sure your quarrel with the Church is a lover’s quarrel. We can criticize the church for its many failures but still see it’s great value. In Monica Furlong’s book “With love to the Church” she expresses her love for the church but called the Church to task for a number of things e.g. ‘”slow to celebrate, for being narrow, unkind and unworthy”. The Church has many imperfections, however, “Thank God for those people who, in spite of the imperfections of the church, encounter Christ there, and are made Christ-like by Him”
By Maurice Boyd
