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I think love
is
well, I think the feeling of love
is a sign of what we're made for
which is the actual doing of love.
The feeling of,
of longing for someone, of
intently caring for someone,
is actually not the thing itself. It's
it's a sign of something that we're made to do which is to
give ourselves to
to others and ultimately to God and it's also a sign that God
is love and hasn't just felt something for us but has actually
given himself,
so God has actually stepped into the story and
entered into suffering and offered himself, and we're meant to
step into people's stories and offer ourselves
in their stories.
You know, the feeling of love is
it comes and goes and it's,
it can be, you can, it can be manipulated,
it can be elicited, but the
doing of love is much more impressive.
When my friend David was dying of cancer
and I was in his room, and his brother and his wife were
helping him just with some very, very fundamental bodily
needs that all bodies have that most of us
when we're healthy can take care of for ourselves.
And they gave me the gift of staying in the room while they helped David with
one of these
bodily needs.
And to see a brother and a wife
loving a human being that way, not
I don't know what they were feeling other than awkwardness
but what they were doing was love.
And when we feel that, I think it's
it's a clue you're made for this level of giving
to, to others and someone has given themselves that much for you,
has entered that deeply into your reality,
has done that much for you.
I think that's what love is actually about.