Love is a powerful emotion,perhaps the strongest of human emotions.People will go to great lengths to express love,and they will do almost anything to get love.So if love is in such demand,why does it seem in short supply?
The problem with human love is that it's usually self-centered.Much of the so-called love we feel could be sumarized by the phrase,"What's in for me?" We may think we love someone,but in reality we may simply love what he or she does for us.
The great writer C.S.Lewis identified four different kinds of love,all but one of which are basically self-centered.First,there's affection,which is the kind of love we can have for something other than people,such as a dog or home or a car.Then there's friendship,a valuable love in the sense that it's the basis of most human relationship.And there's erotic love,which is beautiful between a husband and a wife but a mess outside of married love.All of these are wonderful and necessary loves,but each of them depends on the object of our affection for complete fulfillment.
The only love that is completely other-centered is alled agape love.This is love of the highest order.It's what Lewis called "Divine Gift-Love." When we love with agape love we desire the best for the people we love.We are even able to love those who are unlovable.
Read this from a book which I've borrowed.Sounds meaningful though.Hehs.And promoting a website, www.lightamillioncandles.com This is specially done somehow like a petition for some actions to be taken for child abuse. Hope you can leave your mark there as well! x)
with love