Love Archives
Dan Folgerberg's "Longer" is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. There is just one problem with the song: It is not true! Even though the love described in "Longer" is humanly impossible, there is a reason a song like this touches us so deeply. This is the kind of love we long for - the kind of love we sing about and dream about.
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I agree with this book's spirit -- we should live God's love for all people -- but I reject its conclusion that only those who embrace universalism can love all people. We can universally love all people without embracing universalism.
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The same disgust, dreariness, and soul-deadness I felt at the DMV is the reaction that many people have to organized religion, that is, to the church.
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A simple-but-hard formula
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We are to make every effort to add virtue to our faith (2
Peter 1:5). This book will go a long way in helping us do
this.
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By loving us as he is loved by the Father, Jesus draws us into the circle of divine love. It is this "eternal life" which he both reveals and shares. He does not merely proclaim his divinity, but discloses a life of communion. Jesus invites us to find our deepest identity ("beloved") and make our home ("abide") in his source of joy - God's love!
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Humility is not so much a virtue as it is an attitude of heart that underlies all Christian virtues. It is humility that keeps us from distorting Christianity into dry intellectualism or mere moralism. The goal of Christian spirituality is love, not self-actualization. Humility allows us to see people as God sees them - and love them as God loves them!
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Eros is passionate love. The deep feelings that accompany eros are often exclusively associated with sexuality, but eros is not limited to it. Though eros is motivated by self-interest, one should not conclude that eros is always selfish. Eros, when rightly ordered with the other loves, is a deeply spiritual expression of love.
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Our natural tendency to make idols - even out of good things - demands our constant awareness of our need for Charity in all things!
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Agape love is a spontaneous and generous love that is self-giving to the point of being self-sacrificial. Agape goes beyond the law and must not be equated with "justice." Agape's boundlessness and spontaneity refuse to be held to minimal standards, and therefore cannot be contained in any expression of law, no matter how righteous.
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Love demands to be returned by love -- no more, no less.
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Tragically, "we [often] have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another" (Jonathan Swift). It is easy to justify hatred with a cloak of righteousness. The "greater righteousness" of Jesus will not allow such travesties to occur.
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It is easy to be in love with the idea of
love, but difficult to truly love people. Ultimately love,
in theory, detached from others, is empty of significance.
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Are you willing to accept the mental and emotional price that comes with caring for people - with all their flaws?
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In the Song of Songs - just as in the opening chapters of the Bible - we encounter a man and a woman in a garden, naked and unashamed. Just as in Eden, God pronounces a blessing on the delightful and fulfilling love of eros. Our human experience of eros is a faint glimpse of God's passion for us. Only eros can communicate the intensity of divine love.
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We fantasize of a perfect, ideal, care-free
relationship. But all relationships in this life
are relationships with real sinners
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