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| Ok this is gonna be quite a long entry, and i don't really know how to start.
Say,
when two are in a stage of some form of attraction to each other, or maybe even in a relationship,
you know how you tend to see past certain flaws or things, or make do with them just because you're
totally and absolutely attracted?
i think it's quite a mistake to take that attraction for, well, love.
At this moment, i do realise that i may be bordering the line between wisdom and sounding absolutely juvenile and/or dumb.
But,
i was thinking...
It has to take a toll on you before it's love.
It's gotta irritate the crap out of you, spoil your day, frustrate you, bring out the person that is really in you,
before love comes into the picture.
Funnily, it's exactly at these points where people start to realise after some time that...mmmm, maybe i don't think i can live with this.
And the very things that attraction once had you make do with or helped you to see past start to become
the very reasons for a break-up.
And then we all claim that...'he/she is now a different person', or, 'we once loved each other'.
Like hello, since when was love the very first on the 'easy to do' list.
The fact is, maybe we base too much on attraction, image and feeling...i don't know.
Maybe it's not about merely making do or seeing past...but about sacrifice.
But then again, there's a guy that once said that 'Love without feelings is bland, boring, and dumb.'
Ok i admit i paraphrased quite abit...but it's somewhere along those lines.
And that's also true to a certain extent...i mean, try being with a mate say, 4-5 times your age...mmmm.
Which makes me wonder...
What really keeps two people together?
As much as love conquers all,
there are some differences of which love 'cannot' make alright.
Things like different faiths or moral systems. (Not that it cannot, but that it 'shouldn't?' because the premise
for it to really work within is already wrong? I'm talking about the type of love shared between couples,
not the type that changes people, or that sends missionaries out, or that makes us one)
What then keeps two together?
There must be something about love.
Maybe it's because love is God, and thus all premises in which it really works must firstly be in agreement
with the word and nature of God.
And all this, of course, is within the context of already having given yourself up and choosing Christ instead,
ie. within the context of Christianity.
i must reiterate, this is NOT the type of love that saves people or that gives hope to the worst of criminals.
This is the type of love shared only between couples.
So don't say that some serial killer who believes in the soil for salvation cannot be loved or should not be loved.
But yeah, i really wonder what makes one stick to the other despite all odds, despite the winds and the storms.
Is it just love?
What if one partner decides to abandon his/her faith halfway through the marriage?
Would love still take on the same meaning?
i think that maybe it's the love between us and God that we should first consider.
And that all other forms of love in our lives should take root from God's love to us...Agape.
Love should be rooted in God, before it finds it's forms within the context of our lives.
If love had it's reference point in God, which it should, then perhaps we could learn so much more than
how we usually box love up to be.
i don't know if i'm making sense, i know i had an argument going on but due to tiredness, i think i might have lost it
somewhere. Oh well, maybe i'd pick it up another day, or maybe not..heh.
Quotes that came to mind...
- Don't be afraid to fail or to make a mistake. The path of indecision is the worst of all.
- The hardest thing to do is usually the most right to do.
And to all the ladies/girls/females out there...
Don't find your worth in anything or anyone but in who God says you are to Him.
Heroines don't date men who use them.
(adapted from the words of Mr Donald Miller...)
Psalm 71:5
5 For you have been my hope, O Sovereign LORD,
my confidence since my youth.
love,
leb
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| i know i've said this before..but I really love the after-training clarity in my head.
No wonder God created a body that can excercise..
It doesn't last for very long tho, after whole tiredness sets in..but it's good.
So today i realise that God hears our prayers whether or not we think He does..
It's really just us..we're the limiting factor.
Sometimes we really do put too much into what is best left raw.
I'm thinking our faith here.
Sometimes it's just all so..uncomplex and uncomplicated.
But we pile like our experiences, our feelings, our doubts, our fear (which is a feeling i know..)
And we get this mess of mis-faith and something we don't ever wanna
talk about or maybe even be associated with.
But i think it's beautiful that God still uses all that to somehow work in us
that which is pleasing to Him..a faith that's sharpened and refined..a faith that
He uses to shape even us.
i think we were created for God and wired for community..it's just the latter that we get
so frustrated or jaded or confused with..
Sounds like i've said all this before..
Ok sam's here..dinner here i come | | |
| It's weird i think of such things in the morning. (while eating coco crunch)
Why do we put make-up on?
To enhance, or to hide?
Maybe both?
If to hide, does that mean that we're trying to be someone we're not?
Hahah ah whatever, LOVE is the winner.
It's always about being real, loving people and loving God.
This is such a strange post.
Alright i'm off to camp! | | |
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