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I hate that word. "Love". Yet I have to use it. That's the sad thing about the English language. It's just so limited. Such a beautiful concept as love, and yet we are I believe the ONLY language that has only ONE word to define it. How careless. How cheap.
The Greeks have a different word for all the different kinds of love they knew of.
The Greeks have a different word for all the different kinds of love they knew of.
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If That Isn't Love
He left the splendor of heaven
Knowing His destiny
Was the lonely hill of Golgotha
There to lay down His life for me
And if that isn't love
Then the ocean is dry
There's no stars in the sky
And the little sparrows can't fly
Yeah if that isn't love
Then heaven's a myth
There's no feeling like this
If that isn't love
Even in death He remembered
The thief hanging by His side
Then he spoke of love and compassion
And He took him to paradise
And if that isn't love
Then the ocean is dry
There's no stars in the sky
And the little sparrows can't fly
Yeah if that isn't love
Then heaven's a myth
There's no feeling like this
If that isn't love It's got to be love
When I was a little kid, I really liked this song, because I lived in a very dysfunctional family and I was always searching for love, even when I got older, always looking in all the wrong places. But the answer has always been Jesus.
Debbie
He left the splendor of heaven
Knowing His destiny
Was the lonely hill of Golgotha
There to lay down His life for me
And if that isn't love
Then the ocean is dry
There's no stars in the sky
And the little sparrows can't fly
Yeah if that isn't love
Then heaven's a myth
There's no feeling like this
If that isn't love
Even in death He remembered
The thief hanging by His side
Then he spoke of love and compassion
And He took him to paradise
And if that isn't love
Then the ocean is dry
There's no stars in the sky
And the little sparrows can't fly
Yeah if that isn't love
Then heaven's a myth
There's no feeling like this
If that isn't love It's got to be love
When I was a little kid, I really liked this song, because I lived in a very dysfunctional family and I was always searching for love, even when I got older, always looking in all the wrong places. But the answer has always been Jesus.
Debbie
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1) Baby don't hurt me, no more.
2) but a second-hand emotion?
3) a battlefield
Kudos if you get all the references.
2) but a second-hand emotion?
3) a battlefield
Kudos if you get all the references.
2)Amy Grant
3) Pat benetar
What do I win
I'll throw something else out there.
Love is desiring and working for someone's highest, best "good," even sometimes despite themselves.
Jesus said that greater love has no one than to lay down his life for a friend. Love is caring about someone more than you care about yourself. Self sacrificing is a good synonym for love. We love what we cherish. We love what we hold in our hearts as the one thing we cannot do without. God is love.
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The following comes to mind:
"Baby, do you love me?"
"Yes, of course, I love you."
"Why do you love me?"
"Well, you're funny, beautiful, cute, smart..."
*snore*
I have no idea. I know what love would look like but I don't know if I'm able to define it. For me, love is 100% selfless. So if we take the marriage example, if a husband loves his wife, he would do whatever is in her best interest and makes her happy and expect zero reciprocation from her. That would be love... ideally. But life for us humans is not ideal. So using the marriage example, if both the wife loves her husband and the husband loves his wife, then they would both be out trying to make each other happy all the time and giving up their "rights" to be right, to be this, and that, etc. Then there wouldn't be any arguments and no divorces and the lawyers will go broke! lol ok, I'm day-dreaming now...
"Baby, do you love me?"
"Yes, of course, I love you."
"Why do you love me?"
"Well, you're funny, beautiful, cute, smart..."
*snore*
I have no idea. I know what love would look like but I don't know if I'm able to define it. For me, love is 100% selfless. So if we take the marriage example, if a husband loves his wife, he would do whatever is in her best interest and makes her happy and expect zero reciprocation from her. That would be love... ideally. But life for us humans is not ideal. So using the marriage example, if both the wife loves her husband and the husband loves his wife, then they would both be out trying to make each other happy all the time and giving up their "rights" to be right, to be this, and that, etc. Then there wouldn't be any arguments and no divorces and the lawyers will go broke!
lol ok, I'm day-dreaming now...
The following comes to mind:
"Baby, do you love me?"
"Yes, of course, I love you."
"Why do you love me?"
"Well, you're funny, beautiful, cute, smart..."
*snore*
I have no idea. I know what love would look like but I don't know if I'm able to define it. For me, love is 100% selfless. So if we take the marriage example, if a husband loves his wife, he would do whatever is in her best interest and makes her happy and expect zero reciprocation from her. That would be love... ideally. But life for us humans is not ideal. So using the marriage example, if both the wife loves her husband and the husband loves his wife, then they would both be out trying to make each other happy all the time and giving up their "rights" to be right, to be this, and that, etc. Then there wouldn't be any arguments and no divorces and the lawyers will go broke! lol ok, I'm day-dreaming now...
"Baby, do you love me?"
"Yes, of course, I love you."
"Why do you love me?"
"Well, you're funny, beautiful, cute, smart..."
*snore*
I have no idea. I know what love would look like but I don't know if I'm able to define it. For me, love is 100% selfless. So if we take the marriage example, if a husband loves his wife, he would do whatever is in her best interest and makes her happy and expect zero reciprocation from her. That would be love... ideally. But life for us humans is not ideal. So using the marriage example, if both the wife loves her husband and the husband loves his wife, then they would both be out trying to make each other happy all the time and giving up their "rights" to be right, to be this, and that, etc. Then there wouldn't be any arguments and no divorces and the lawyers will go broke!
lol ok, I'm day-dreaming now...
That's just the point - in English, you have to keep reusing "love". There are all KINDS of different love, yet we only have one word for it. Most languages have a different word for each different type of love. Like the Greeks had phileo (brotherly), agape (unconditional), eros? (erotic), uhm...they have one for hospitality, which is a kind of love defined by I believe Aristotle.
Well, I don't speak Greek, nor Hebrew, nor any other language, except for tongues, but I don't know what I am saying then. I have no aptitude for languages at all. When tested for the ability to learn a second language, I made one of the lowest scores ever. But I know what love is in Christ Jesus, and that God is love. It is enough for me.