Because that is what love does

“Why do you love someone who is such a screw-up?  After all the things I’ve felt in my heart toward you and all the accusations I made, why would you even bother to keep trying to get through to me?”

“Because that is what love does,” answered Papa.  “Remember, Mackenzie, I don’t wonder what you will do or what choices you will make.  I already know.  Let’s say, for example, I am trying to teach you how not to hide inside of lies, hypothetically of course.” she said with a wink.  “And let’s say that I know it will take you forty-seven situations and events before you will actually hear me—that is, before you will hear clearly enough to agree with me and change.  So when you don’t hear me the first time, I’m not frustrated or disappointed, I’m thrilled.  Only forty-six more times to go.  And that first time will be a building block to construct a bridge of healing that one day-that today—you will walk across.”

~ The Shack, by WM. Paul Young