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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
What is Love?
Love to me is, (fill in the blank), and there you have it. Love is a very personal thing, with many so called "definers" in today's world. In the biblical text, it is mentioned and discussed with definitions that seem to define an unselfish sharing and caring type of love Romans and Corinthians for example). But around these descriptors are many other events and serializations that can seemingly disprove the basic concepts and spirit of faith and understanding.
How do we as individuals, define love in our life? A very sincere question for anyone to contemplate. Aa a person in what I percieve as life recovery, love has taken on many different meanings, such as, Control, Opression, Loss of self worth and self esteem, People Pleasing, Acceptance Issues (I'll love you if....), and various statements of the amount of love given and taken.
In treatment many decades ago, one of the counselors had us put on one piece of paper what we perceived God to be in our lives from everything we had learned and what had led us to the path of self destruction. On another piece of paper, he had us write what we wanted God to be in our lives, and the definers were very different. I will follow through on this later in the week, hopefully, but just be aware, that was a defining day in my life and the beginning of a wonderful spiritual awakening!
Perhaps a reading of Romans and Corinthians would be in order, not only about love, but it's responsibility as well as the gifts we are given and how they can be used.
(This is a work in Progress, not yet completed...)
How do we as individuals, define love in our life? A very sincere question for anyone to contemplate. Aa a person in what I percieve as life recovery, love has taken on many different meanings, such as, Control, Opression, Loss of self worth and self esteem, People Pleasing, Acceptance Issues (I'll love you if....), and various statements of the amount of love given and taken.
In treatment many decades ago, one of the counselors had us put on one piece of paper what we perceived God to be in our lives from everything we had learned and what had led us to the path of self destruction. On another piece of paper, he had us write what we wanted God to be in our lives, and the definers were very different. I will follow through on this later in the week, hopefully, but just be aware, that was a defining day in my life and the beginning of a wonderful spiritual awakening!
Perhaps a reading of Romans and Corinthians would be in order, not only about love, but it's responsibility as well as the gifts we are given and how they can be used.
(This is a work in Progress, not yet completed...)
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