http://myrighteousindignation.com/2006/03/31/part-ii-i-get-poetical-and-highfalutin-on-friday-nights-sorry/ ...for woman's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James 1: 19-20 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://myrighteousindignation.com/2006/03/31/part-ii-i-get-poetical-and-highfalutin-on-friday-nights-sorry/comment-page-1/#comment-235 MRI Webmaster Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:10:24 +0000 http://myrighteousindignation.com/2006/03/31/part-ii-i-get-poetical-and-highfalutin-on-friday-nights-sorry/#comment-235 Agreed. Love, in its best definition, does necessarily include action, and I think we all have a tendency to forget that on a daily basis. In my work, I often find myself dealing with relationships in which love has devolved into convenience, commerce, or complaint. Keeping love love is hard. Letting it degrade is easy. So people wait to “feel” love before they act–as though love, at least as we understand it biblically, has much of anything to do with feeling. Any psychologist worth their salt knows that, most of the time, feeling follows action, which follows intention. In other words, act loving first, and often feeling will follow suit. Agreed. Love, in its best definition, does necessarily include action, and I think we all have a tendency to forget that on a daily basis. In my work, I often find myself dealing with relationships in which love has devolved into convenience, commerce, or complaint. Keeping love love is hard. Letting it degrade is easy. So people wait to “feel” love before they act–as though love, at least as we understand it biblically, has much of anything to do with feeling. Any psychologist worth their salt knows that, most of the time, feeling follows action, which follows intention. In other words, act loving first, and often feeling will follow suit.

]]> http://myrighteousindignation.com/2006/03/31/part-ii-i-get-poetical-and-highfalutin-on-friday-nights-sorry/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Judy Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:56:11 +0000 http://myrighteousindignation.com/2006/03/31/part-ii-i-get-poetical-and-highfalutin-on-friday-nights-sorry/#comment-233 I, perhaps like everyone else who has read your last entry, can find nothing to disagree with. I can't really think of anything to add, either. But I'm wondering how does one love without intention or care? One might stumble or 'fall in love.' But that is more infatuation or attraction than love. Doesn't real love, almost by definition, include both intention and care? I, perhaps like everyone else who has read your last entry, can find nothing to disagree with. I can’t really think of anything to add, either. But I’m wondering how does one love without intention or care? One might stumble or ‘fall in love.’ But that is more infatuation or attraction than love. Doesn’t real love, almost by definition, include both intention and care?

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