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pastor2022
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 Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:52 am Post subject: Love |
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Love
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
The Latin phrase sine qua non meant "without which not." When we say that something is the sine qua non of something else, we mean that the first thing is absolutely essential to the second: the second thing could not exist without the first.
Is it too much to say that love is the sine qua non of human life? Honestly, I don't think that's an overstatement. Many things may be taken away from us, many "essential" things we may have to get along without, but take away love, and what is left is something less than a human life. By this I do not mean that we have to be loved to be human; I mean that we must love. We ourselves must have love for some personal being outside of ourselves. There is nothing any more deeply embedded in our nature than the need to love. Whether or not love is acknowledged, appreciated, or reciprocated, the great happiness of life is to love. It was no one less than Friedrich von Schiller, who wrote the poem Ode to Joy and was a leader of German Romanticism, who said, "I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved."
I came of age on the Texas Gulf Coast not far from the Louisiana Creole country. In those lands, there is a beautiful proverb which says, "Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are." Today, and every day, let's meditate on those whom we love -- let's resolve to love them more purely, strongly, tenderly . . . and lovingly!
Still it's the most wonderful thing this side of heaven, isn't it? It deserves nothing less than our best effort. We ought to honor it and receive its grace with gratitude. We ought to quit trying to make it be our slave, and instead allow it to be the heart-piercing, two-edged sword that it has always been in the realm from whence it came. |
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Veronica Moser
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thanks for sharing that!  |
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atoz
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: Re: Love |
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| pastor2022 wrote: | Love
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
The Latin phrase sine qua non meant "without which not." When we say that something is the sine qua non of something else, we mean that the first thing is absolutely essential to the second: the second thing could not exist without the first.
Is it too much to say that love is the sine qua non of human life? .....
Whether or not love is acknowledged, appreciated, or reciprocated, the great happiness of life is to love.
It was no one less than Friedrich von Schiller, who wrote the poem Ode to Joy and was a leader of German Romanticism, who said,
"I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved."
I came of age on the Texas Gulf Coast not far from the Louisiana Creole country. In those lands, there is a beautiful proverb which says,
"Tell me whom you love,
and I'll tell you who you are."
Today, and every day,
let's meditate on those whom we love --
let's resolve to love them more purely, strongly, tenderly . . . and lovingly!
Still it's the most wonderful thing this side of heaven, isn't it? It deserves nothing less than our best effort.
We ought to honor it and receive its grace with gratitude.
We ought to quit trying to make it be our slave, and instead allow it to be the heart-piercing, two-edged sword that it has always been in the realm from whence it came. |
Simply awesome, P2022!
sigh
Preach on, like Toby keith!smile
But I think that
having 'to be loved to be human'
and
'we must love'
are the same thing---
since God has to and had to love us to teach us how to love ourselves as Him and as all others --
so we can love Him and all others as ourselves, 1 John 4:19----
and
since we must love ourselves before we can love God or any others.
with all Love and R,
atoz |
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lone-traveler
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:17 am Post subject: |
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you always send blessings pastor 2022..
thankyou
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Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. |
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