fiatlux wrote:
"God is love." His character defines love. Yes, too vague perhaps. And 1Cor13:5-...misunderstands it on some level.
I take issue first with the idea you express that "1Cor 13:5 misunderstands Love." Are you saying God cannot correctly express His own being?
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Love cannot sacrifice;
Mothers, wives, siblings, Fathers, Husbands, Brothers, sisters, Offspring of every category do it all the time. To "Sacrifice" is to make another the focus of your effort for what is best for that other. And most are selfless.
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there is never anything to lose.
Sure there is. Lose our self in doing for another that has a need beyond our own gratification. but it is not a "loss" - it is a finding; a finding of kinship where none existed; a finding of kindred need, where there is null fulfillment.
Other than to gain the lost brother, to salvage a lost sister, to comfort an aged parent, to shelter a lost cat or dog, To Love is to gain at all junctures.
To truly another is to have a contest to see if I can do better for other, than other can do for me. THAT is a bounty of love.
Rewardless love is like a windsock that ne'er flies, a kite upon the ground; love is meant to be the medium upon which one soars above the landscape, with head and heart near to Heaven for the bliss rejoined.
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for love is enough.
The only thing that is enough, but of which "enough" is never the 'plaint.
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Love has no patience,
Impatience is a form of hate. It demeans and bullies the slow, the immature, the faint and the halt. Love makes room for all stumbling, bumbling walks in life that are less than "me," for "me" is lost in loving, in helping, in finding, in losing, in feeding, in clothing, in accompanying, in leaving, sheltering, in listening, in all facets of every kind of living life in concert with others who have less than I.
And it moves me to aid and abet those who have more than I, to help, to find, to lose, to shelter, to listen, to feed, to clothe, to accompany, to live for others in every facet of living in concert with others who have less in every way.
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for the moment is perfect.
AMEN!
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Love is not kind, for love acts without thinking of kindness.
What an empty, blind, deaf, and selfish thing an unthinking love can be. For it must always be seeing, listening, comforting, joining, sharing, laughing with, joying, building up, never tearing down, always considering, kindling reciprocity in empty hears, to being them into a circle of being loved.
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There are three types of love: unconditional, unconditional, and unconditional: the rest is just forms of expressing such love.
There is the love a Mother has for a child of her body; the love a Father has for the mother of his children; the love a sibling has for a sibling; the love a neighbor has for kindness from a stranger; the love a puppy has for the toddler who pulls upon its ears; The love a Grandmother has for the parents of her grandchildren; oh, the plentitude of kinds of love. never making conditions, only making inroads upon aching hearts, bringing bliss to empty lives.
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Love is not an emotion;
Love is the only emotion worthy of emoting. All else is a striving to learn to love; a journey to find love; a sharing to cause love.
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it is a complete union of being.
AMEN!
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Love is not moral, per se, concerned with what is right and wrong:
Love is always concerned with doing no wrong, only pursuing what is right and proper in the effort of doing for another what is best for that other.
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it is only concerned with healing and restoration; what leads to wholeness.
If that were true, only Doctors and Nurses could love. Love is only concerned with loving, which every soul under heaven can share with every other soul, if only the effort were put forth with understanding and consideration of the needs of others. For love is based upon need and fulfillment, always with lifting up and not tearing down, building relationships, not destroying characters.
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There is much more but I sense you already object.
What makes you think that?