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======Love 2 - What love can be ...======
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009. What can love be? Love is a state of complete trust
and dedication, of complete solidarity. Love is a state where the loved person
is fully in the focus of the loving person, where it is appreciated and
highly valued.
The value which love gives cannot be measured. Love gives
"complete" value, there is nothing which could be compared to the value love
gives. You cannot balance one love against another, that will destroy it.
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In his astonishing "song of love" the apostle Paul writes:
"Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (1 Cor: 13)
Someone who loves can give away what he has. The loving person wants to give,
he or she wants to be there, they want to serve, want to work, want to help and to
provide what ever is necessary. Love is a state of life where things are different
from what we are often used to. Love opens possibilities which would not be there
without it. It opens a complete new world.
Love believes all things, hopes all things - Paul is going into the extreme. But there
are no other words to describe true love, where ever it comes into reality. Love
will hope, sometimes against the facts. It will keep hoping.
Love is a miracle, it is from another world. The miracle is not only, that we can
imagine such love, that we can have an incomplete idea of true love
which is intruding our
day like a bright ray of light. The miracle is also that such love exists, since it
is God who is love in a way we can hardly imagine or comprehend.
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The New Testament formulates the invitation to you and to me, to enter the realm
of God's love. We are invited to come get to know this God who is "the love". We
are invited to come to faith, to enter a relationship which consists of the
miracle of love. It will not let us stay unchanged. Love always has a future. It is
the most dynamic force on earth.
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