What I did for "love"

I was the smartest man in the world.

I was rich, famous, and powerful.

I wasn’t bad looking.

But that wasn’t enough.

I went all the way and much, much further.

Women literally flocked to me.

And I did anything they wanted.

Anything.

Suddenly, I had found that I had turned my back on everything that I had once stood for.

I had trashed all the things that had been the most important and most precious in my life.

Now I was old and my riches and power had been taken away from me.

But that wasn’t the worst.

I learned how terrible, how bitter, how devastating it was
to break the heart of God.

(cf today’s first reading: 1 Kings 11:4-13)