Augustine considered sin a matter of "disordered love" -- all sin (a manifestation of) the love that isn't rightly ordered, the love gone wrong, turned wrong, become wrong.
And this house may look disordered and upended, but you beautiful children are teaching me how to order the love right, to love the things unseen more than the things seen.
Absolutely everything in the world is love, even the most vile of sins, but it is a love disorder, the passions upset, disordered, twisted.
And the work of a life is to reorder the love, right the love again, turn all things towards the True Lover.
-Ann Voskamp
(from her blog post, "Fixing the One Disorder that We all Have")
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