We say we love pizza. We love chocolate (of course). People also say immoral uncommitted relations are love.
We need a different word.
Something that means the real love. Love that is so transcendent and important that it is stronger than any force.
I've noticed that in a lot of stories, love is the victor. Real love. The True stuff I'm talking about. I was remembering A Wrinkle in Time which I've always enjoyed. (I read it to my kids and they didn't enjoy it...maybe it's an acquired taste.) Do you remember it? Meg was able to withstand IT and fight in order to save her brother.
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Talk about a superpower!
Do you remember this from Harry Potter?
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin.
Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Then there's the paramount example of real, true love:
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for a friend.
John 15:13
There is inconceivable power in the love Jesus Christ has for each of us. It is what we can cling to, where we can draw strength and how we can continue on.
There is no greater love.
And that love is light and truth, peace and happiness. Security.
And I'm grateful.
3 comments:
Hi this is desi I think you kids are CRAZY who dosn't like a wrinkle in time!
well put Thelma.
I agree!!!
Pres. Kimball stated in The Miracle of Forgivness pg. 65.
"It is lust, not love, which brings men and women to for....... and adu...... No perosn would injure one he truely loves, and se.... sin can only result in injury."
With that said, the lord will never lead us astray, so that must mean that Lucifer, the great lier and deceiver, saw a weekness and took advantage of the oportunity.
All we can do is pray for the lost lamb, give them our love and support and pray always that they will return to the flock, never to be lost again.
I pray for "Love...True Love" in all families.
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