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======Love 4 - Men and Women ...======
Thursday, Oct 22, 2009. Love has consequences. If you love someone, you will not
harm him or her. That is a consequence of love. It is not possible to love and to
harm at the same time. It is, however, possible to desire and to harm. Sometimes
we mix up desire and love. Love will not harm the other person, because it puts
the other person first and forgets about the self. Desire puts the self first and
the other person is used to fill the desire. But love is different, love
will do good!
God gave love to men and women. "It is not good, that a man should be alone by
himself" (Genesis). God created mankind as men and women. These two "sorts" of
men are created for mutual love, for supporting each other. They are created to
live in close community, in harmony. We are made for each other - that explains
the strong attraction we experience. That explains the key role which love and
partnership plays in our societies. It explains why teens start to be obsessed
with love and partnership and relationships as soon as their ability to partner
develops.
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God created a framework for love. It is a framework of responsibility, a framework
of actions, a framework of life. A man and a woman will leave their parents
and live with the other person, they will establish a new household.
It is a framework where our physical relationships can evolve, in a trustworthy
and protected environment. Tenderness and sex have their important role here.
Love has consequences on a physical level as well. When a man and a woman love each
other and this love becomes physical, children can and usually will arise out of this
relationship. Children are a consequence of love, an effect of the physical
layer of love.
Humans have tried to split love from responsibility. We can have sex where ever
we want with whom we want - that is an old and still today popular idea,
only slightly limited by
age restrictions to protect children. Contraception has helped this idea by
allowing sex without children arising from it.
There are some good reasons to use contraception
in a responsible way today. However, more important is the basic idea,
that we act as responsible
humans and that our physical love should be one with our emotions and our
spiritual state. It should be one with God's purpose and truth. If this is the
case, love, sex and social commitment to a relationship will go hand in hand.
Marriage is timeless, it is a term describing this commitment, a special
relationship between man and woman, which reflects the facts of creation.
God has given us something special: the relationship between man and woman,
partnership, tenderness and love. To me this is a really great thing, something
which I perceive as holy, as absolutely amazing and special. There is something
urging me to keep it holy, to protect it, to help it. It is so easy to destroy a
relationship, to follow desires in this or that direction. But an environment
where love can flourish and where children can grow up in an open and protected
environment is the best idea I have ever seen on this planet. God's
creativity when he created mankind as men and women, with the partnership
between them, with the possibility to have children, to nurture them, to let
them grow and learn, to have them play between us ... wow!
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