Emotion or action

“We are sometimes tempted to reduce love to indescribable  emotion suddenly emerging in our breast and weakening our knees.  This emotion makes our hands break into a cold sweat and keeps us awake at night.  Those fresh chemical responses in our body can’t be denied, but love is more than that.  Love, John says, is ‘truth and action.’  Or we might say ‘active truth’ or even ‘truth in action.’  ‘To say that God is love,’ Frederick Buechner tells us, ‘is either the last straw or the ultimate truth.’  This ultimate truth invites you and me to walk with God, the God who makes that first move to end cycles of un-love.” (p 134)

How do you define love?

 


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