Wow, it’s been a while.\u00a0 Quick update.\u00a0 Life here is good, though very quite without any Arrowhead students.\u00a0 We’ve been keeping very busy.\u00a0 I did get my email project working, so I’ll get that howto posted in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n
Moving on to the topic at hand.
\nI had a thought hit me Sunday night. I was thinking about love, and it dawned on me that to love someone does not mean to ignore, or be ok with their flaws\/sin. One of the reasons I struggle so much with love is I have this idea that if I love someone I’m ok with them, with what they do. I realized this is simply not true. In love, someones faults can and should be recognized. It’s not my job to do anything about those faults, but it is silly to pretend that they don’t exist. It seems so basic, but for some reason had never really sunk in before. I was getting so frustrated because peoples flaws annoyed me, and I thought to love them I couldn’t be annoyed with them. I finally understand annoyance and love are not mutually exclusive. If only I could be less comfortable with my sin and more annoyed by it.<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong.\u00a0 I’m not saying it’s ok to sit around and chew people out (either in your head, or to their face).\u00a0 I am saying, you can love some one with out accepting them or more specifically without accepting their sin (or what you think is their sin).\u00a0 Maybe that doesn’t make sense.<\/p>\n
Any ways that is something of what has being going on in my head the past couple of days.\u00a0 As I reread this I realize this is not a fully formed image of what love is (I Corinthians 13 lays that out) nor is it supposed to be.\u00a0 As with everything I write, if there is truth in it keep that, and chuck the rest.<\/p>\n
John 12:25-26 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man server me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, it’s been a while.\u00a0 Quick update.\u00a0 Life here is good, though very quite without any Arrowhead students.\u00a0 We’ve been keeping very busy.\u00a0 I did get my email project working, so I’ll get that howto posted in the next couple of days. Moving on to the topic at hand. I had a thought hit me … Continue reading “A Short Muse on Love (and some other stuff)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}