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If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.
Luke 9:23-24
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It is only when we choose constantly, with an act of will, to abide in love, that Love will abide in us. If we do not abide, then we do not love.
Kuya Miguel
New Orleans, Louisiana
"When was the last time you've ever taken a chance"
"God is love.” 1 John 4:8 : Real Love
For a Christian, love is not just a noun it’s a verb that requires action. It is a noun because it is God Himself, “God is love.” 1 John 4:8. It is also a verb because it compels us to concretize it our lives and the lives of others. It is not just used as an excuse of our failure to love like Him. We say, “I am falling out of love, so I will break up with her.” It’s as if love is just a matter of falling, a word bound by gravity. But love, if real, defies the force of gravity. We find so many excuses because from the beginning we already have a different motive in leading someone to us. If our love is real, our motive has to be pure as possible. We are courting someone because we see in her a spark of the divine.
Love has been defined in such a way that it fits our own selfish desires. We relegated love in the realms of feelings and emotions and nothing more. So much that it means nothing when hardships come. Our love is the love of I, me and myself. If we don’t like the other anymore, if she is of no use anymore, if we don’t have the feelings anymore, we throw her out. But love, is not just a part of something, it is everything. When we love, we love the entire person not just the beautiful part of her but including the not so good of her. We cannot just say, “I love you because you have such a beautiful eye.” What if she gets blind? Love is wholesale not retail. Hindi patingi-tingi ang pag-ibig! Kung iibig ka, buo! You take her as a whole or not at all.
It is no wonder why it is so easy to court someone on Facebook, express the feelings on twitter, and tell the world about all the emotions through other social media, because somehow the virtual reality provides a shield for someone from a real responsibility. We want love but we don’t want responsibility. We despise having accountability with our actions. We just want the “kiligs”, the giggles of loving. Love can never be virtual it has to be real! And certainly, we can never have love without responsibility. So we show ourselves with all courage and win the other over, by being real to her in her own home and family. We face the people who love her and tell them our real intentions.
by aats
The Other Face of Love
The Other Face of Love
The other face of love is not the face we want to see. The world had successfully made us believe that love resides only in the realms of feelings, so much so that we equate it with just good feelings, great vibes. We think its love only if we are happy, we are not stressed and we are on cloud 9! But that is not so. The reality is, whether you are a believer or not, love has two faces. Yes, it has the face of happiness and joy and exhilaration, but it also has the face of sadness, pains and sacrifice. Love is all and not just a part of it. Love is perfected when we go beyond the sunny side and actually living it out even in the gloomy side. This is so, because when we love, we desire nothing but the best of the other. St. Paul’s so articulately said it in 1 Corinthians 13, Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things…. Love never gives up. The risk of loving is that we will be hurt. When we court and the other says yes, we took the risk. We are hurt because the face of love that is showing us is not the way we intended it to be or the way we pictured it. It’s a beautiful risk, because love is beautiful, that’s why we said yes in the first place. When we love, lets be ready to face the other side it shows. Lord grants us the grace to see and respond in goodness when love shows its other face. Amen.
"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart"
- Jeremiah 29:13
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