Often I wonder about love, many have said love is the one thing that can not be understood, yet I feel as if we refuse to understand it, not that we can't.
I say we can, we can understand love to such a degree, as to shrug it off and leave it for the birds.
That would be my scientific side talking, yes we know it's chemicals, and it's great for health.
Yet, I say we can never understand love, because Love is an attribute of God, and people can never fully understand God, not in this life, so it seems as if we are at a loss. 1 Corinthians 13 is fantastic in telling what love is. Yet we still struggle with this idea of love.
Is love that fuzzy feeling newlyweds have?
or the love of a father or mother to their son or daughter?
is it the love of a brother?
or the love of a grandma?
is it the feeling when children delight us in being good?
or the feeling we have for the boy in grade 9?
is it the feelings we have for God?
if all these things are love, then Love must be pretty broad, and if love is pretty broad then it is probably pretty specifically a general feeling we have for people if we get to know them. I would hazard a guess that if people would know each other more then there would be more love.
I wonder if love is not only for God, and then there is a special trickle down effect, of loving Gods creation, and people love other people the most because we are all the crown of Gods creations and the only beings on this planet made in His image.
Still what really is love?
Honestly can anyone know?
Relax, have a drink, read something.
Hello, and welcome
This is a place to think, listen to some good music and enjoy life as it is, in simpleness. These are my thoughts life stories and experiences.
About Me
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- Im a christian and that pretty much defines my life, I really try to be real about it. Now that doesn't mean I doen't mess up, I do, and all the time. I work at camps during the summer and I really like it. I enjoy kids a lot, and get along with most. I lived in Thailand as a missionary kid for two years in grade 10-11. I also plan to go back there some time soon.
I've walked past many a time
filling my soul with grief
Wake up call
We need something these days to wake us up, perhaps we need to see just how many of us are in the top 2% of richest people in the world? Maybe we need to see death of infants to make our souls cry out to us? probably-a starving boy to ask us for money and we don't give him any, then he falls over-death.
Compassion for those who need it.
Fighting for them who need it.
power to fall from us to them.
then we will taste the bite of ours.
friends and favs
Understanding Connections
To me, values are interesting. Mostly I would say that we all have relatively the same values, sure there are differences. I think we all agree on the value of life, love and joy. Now the thing that is most interesting is what we value, perhaps a loyal friend, or maybe a pet. We might even value our WOW account, but the most important value we all have is connection. So how do we connect, and how well do we connect with others? We can all answer this question for our selves; the answer depends on whether or not you feel in need of more connections, or a thirst for deeper connections. Then we need to look at how superficial the connections we already have are.
to remember not all is lost
Peace, can you feel it?
To remember something good.
We need to be constantly reminded of how much good truly is in this world sometimes. I think we depend on this to keep moving our feet. We in North America often lose sight of what beauty and rest for our souls there truly is here. Even just out the door.
not all is lost
Beauty, rest four our soul
favorite books
- -C.S. Lewis authorship
- -Clive Cussler authorship
- -Earth's Children series
- -English Poetry ad Prose of the Romantic Movment
- -Gulliver's Travels
- -John Eldredge authorship
- -Life of Pi
- -Lord of the Rings
- -Narnia
- -Pain: The Gift Nobody wants
- -Run Baby Run
- -Sherlock Holmes
- -The Last of the Mohicans
- -Wild at Heart
Looking Within
Often we need to look in the mirror and stop comparing ourselves to the way the world works. We need to look in the mirror and see how God might see us. Though the world may look at us as failures, we need to be reminded that God also sees us. He Sees us as rich in his grace and a glorious success.
If God does exist, who has seen him? If God does exist, who has heard him? If God does exist, where is he? If God does exist, who can explain him? If God does exist, would we be able to really understand these things?
2 comments:
In a lot of ways, the words in that song do relate to thoughts and feelings I have. I guess thats why I like it so much.
Honesty, I wonder a lot of those things too...
if they would be interested in seeing things through my eyes, above all that flying and freedom offers.
We all take our turns at flying. The question is more will they continue to return, and in turn hold the line.
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The mood I'm in says: "why would we ever have to understand what love is?".
But it's hypicritical. I've struggled with trying to explane it too. Part of me reasons that we can never fully understand anything in God's creation because we're part of it.
Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' (Matthew 22:37-39)
He didnt have to place the love of God and the love of eachother so close together, didnt have to place them in that order. But He did. It couldnt have been without reason.
What people call love can be fleeting, conditional, self-motivated, or not really "love" at all...part of being fallen is to be a sive. Jesus' life was a perfect example of it, so who better to be a perfect teacher for it?
This is long enough to be a post itself!
Sorry for the longwindedness of my mind :)
Thought prevoking posts, all of them.
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