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Rihanna has a way of making the most interesting videos about the tension of love. We live in relationships with people and within those relationships is the ever present feeling of love that comes from the affections of the other. In many ways, to be loved feels like salvation.  To have someone live in such a ways as to say, "You are worth it."

To feel it is to risk the possibility of losing it.  And when you do, it becomes a place of unspeakable suffering. It's easy to want to hold onto that old memory, desiring to go back to the old places.  In this video <em>We Found Love</em>, a female voice speaks to that tension.  She says:

<em>It's like screaming and no one can hear.</em>
<em>You almost feel ashamed, that someone could be that important, </em>
<em>that without them, you feel like nothing.</em>
<em>Noone will ever understand how much it hurts.</em>
<em>You feel hopeless, like nothing can save you.</em>
<em>And when it's over, when it's gone, you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back, </em>
<em>so you can have the good.</em>

The risk of love is in the possibility that someone may not love you back. This is the risk of our humanity.  That God may not love us back.  And when our present circumstances suggest that God has left the building, it's hard to hold on.  It's hard to