I've always been annoyed by those people who say "don't give away your heart", like loving someone will take away from yourself. Almost like...if you love someone and they don't love you back, then it wasn't worth it, then you've wasted your heart. Disregarding the physical, or romantic ideas behind it, "giving away your heart" is not a bad thing.I love a lot of people. I'm not gonna lie, they're everywhere.
And...I don't know...I'm not sure...but I think that a "heart" in context of this love, is not limited, like a physical heart is. I think that, with God's help, we can love every single person in the world. That doesn't mean we will, but I think it means we don't have to withold anything.
If God commands us to love everyone, then we should at least try.
For me, it's hard not to love someone. [CASC, but, really, I find it difficult]
There are literally hundreds of people across the country that I *love*, I mean really love. Like, it makes my heart glad to think of them and sad to miss them.
Maybe I just haven't met anyone bad enough, but I can't recall meeting a single person I don't like. Eventually, when I become friends with these people, spend time with them, and get to know them I love them.
[don't ask me to define love in this context...let's say it's either agape, or philia]
[that flaunting of Greek terms was just for you Hayley ;)]
Why can't we 'give away our hearts'? if God tells us to do it, He'll replenish our supply of heart if we need it.
meh, I'm not sure if I'm right, I've just been thinking about this a lot recently.
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I was tracking with you until you threw in the Greek terms, and now I'm wondering if you were meaning what I thought you were meaning by the English. :P
"I think that, with God's help, we can love every single person in the world. That doesn't mean we will, but I think it means we don't have to withold anything." Exactly. Yes. For some weird reason I (and I guess people in general? I don't know) place limits sometimes on how much love I can give out, but that's so silly! In Christ there are no limits on our capacity to love.
I think I'm finally starting to agree with that statement. I've always come to the conclusion that it's so close to impossible to love every single person that for all practical purposes it is impossible. But why be practical? After all, it is only infinitely improbable. Still, can you honestly say that I'm wrong when I say that I never will love everyone?
I guess the fact that I even say that is proof that I have the wrong view. I shouldn't even think of "can" or "cannot," "will" or "will not," and just do it.
Thank you. By thinking out loud about the difficulty of loving everyone, you've gotten me to stop thinking about it. :D
indeed kate.
indeed.
:)
(that's my intellectual way of saying "MhM")
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