What is love?

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KleinerApfel

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Can we make a list together?

Could you share some thoughts on the question - What is love?

Anything - single word replies, lists, poems, everyday or once in a lifetime examples?


I'm making another thread for grace, it'll be interesting to compare or contrast our thoughts.

The very first thing that popped into my mind when someone asked me this question recently was this old song from a film -


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBGHWAo2tw&feature=related


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Can we make a list together?

Could you share some thoughts on the question - What is love?

Anything - single word replies, lists, poems, everyday or once in a lifetime examples?


I'm making another thread for grace, it'll be interesting to compare or contrast our thoughts.

The very first thing that popped into my mind when someone asked me this question recently was this old song from a film -

:D

The first thing I though of was 1 Cor 13:4-7

Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
Love does not demand its own way.
Love is not irritable
Love keeps no record of being wronged.
Love does not rejoice about injustice
Love rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up,
Love never loses faith,
Love is always hopeful,
Love endures through every circumstance.
 
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Love is leaving the last luscious morsel of something special on the plate for your spouse.
Love is not critizing when your spouse leaves his socks on the floor for you to pick up.
Love is not being jealouse when your spouse admires beauty in another person. (beauty, not lust)
Love is giving your coat to your spouse to keep warm, even though you are cold.
Love is going places with your spouse you may not want to.
Love is going to church with your spouse when it is not your choice of church.
Love is a gentle touch when your spouse is hurt and you are at a loss for words.
Love is making sure your spouse has money in his/her pocket and you have to squeeze it out of the food budget, but don't tell them where it came from.
Love is always putting your spouse's needs before your own.

These are just some of the special "I love you" unspoken things which I have enjoyed in my 50 years of marriage.
 
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The Lord gave me this today after gathering together to pray for children last night

THESE DEAR CHILDREN I LOVE

Children, those dear children how I love them,
My heart breaks to see little ones crying,
How I long for my people to intercede for them,
Come see what I see in that child who is lying.

I see the fatherless child, desperately seeking a daddy,
I see the abused child, lying huddled in a corner crying,
Others have parents drinking, taking drugs and squabbling,
And how I long for them to know me as their Heavenly Daddy.

I see the orphan child never really knowing a place called home,
Do you know that I want them to know heaven as their future home?
I want you my people to care like I care, to make a difference,
Each of you can do something that can start to change things.

I want you to feel something of my heart for those little ones,
Do you know that you can prevail in prayer for them?
I do not want them to follow on in a generational cycle of wrongs,
Come my child, I will wipe away your tears is my cry to them.

So my people I want you to care like I care and see what I see,
That you in turn might play your part in directing those children to me,
Children all over the world are so dear to my heart,
It is time for you my people to get involved and play your part.


Love from Father.






Irene McGough 2008
 
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What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Oh, baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

What is love
Yeah

Oh, I don't know why you're not there
I give you my love, but you don't care
So what is right and what is wrong
Gimme a sign

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh

Oh, I don't know, what can I do
What else can I say, it's up to you
I know we're one, just me and you
I can't go on

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh

What is love, oooh, oooh, oooh
What is love, oooh, oooh, oooh

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

Don't hurt me
Don't hurt me

I want no other, no other lover
This is your life, our time
When we are together, I need you forever
Is it love

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more (oooh, oooh)

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more (oooh, oooh)

What is love?
 
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Love is Jesus!

;)

Amen! (And as described in post #2!)

The Lord gave me this today after gathering together to pray for children last night

THESE DEAR CHILDREN I LOVE

Your words are right from His heart Irene.

What is love

Yes, funny how often love is such an enormous source of pain isn't it?

The love scriptures already quoted so:

A three word def.

Caring about people.

Amen. :groupray:
 
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Jesus, His approach to widows and orphans, how we are to forgive all and remember none just as God does, to realize that sin is sin and we are all on an even playing field in that area. That is true love to accept and help your brother and see onlyn good in him.
 
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Beautiful songs Twiggy!

Cassidy, I can't argue with that - what else is there to say?!

Oh Lismore, how true - love's so often missing in action.

There is a lot of love on this forum you know...
Despite everything, a lot of us care about each other a lot, and even though we can't "be there" in person to do it in practical ways, we might be surprised at how much each of us is loved if we really did live close enough to bump into each other and share the grit and graces.
Not great love like God's, not perfect love, just a little pinch of love a seed, but it's real.

And speaking of perfect love reminds me I was going to post 1 John 4:18 yesterday...

Perfect love casts out fear.

:)
 
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What a bunch of bull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IS THE REBRITH OR QUICKEN OF THE SEED OF GOD WITHIN ALL HIS CHILDERN. AND THE GROWTH OF THAT SEED BY THE GIVING OF GOD BY HIS WILL TO THOSE WHO LEARN TO LISTERN TO HIS VOICE. IT BECOMES A FRIST NATURE OF ONES BEING AND NOT SOME UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN WORDS ON A PAGE.

LOL!

There are many precious thoughts shared here by brothers and sisters, as a way of illustrating just a little of each of our own lifetime's growing understanding and experience of love.

If you think it's bull, you're entitled to your opinion, but maybe there are more "loving" ways to respond to us?! ^_^
 
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