"Love involves us, but it's not about us" ~Jason Illian (Undressed)
Hmm, it makes me think, but what do you think?
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- Cassandra
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3 comments:
to me it speaks to the idea that love is not selfish. it is sacrificial. it shouldn't be about us, it should be about them. meaning the person(s) that we love. i think it's easy to fall into a set of conditions where we love just for the sake of love or something else being returned. but that's not gonna work. we should love only with the expectation that the person being loved will experience love. anything i get in return is merely a bonus. if i get nothing in return, i continue to love anyways. so love is about them, not us.
fargo john, thank you for your profound statement: "we should love only with the expectation that the person being loved will experience love." if only people could grasp that and live it. it would change lives, marriages, families... thanks for your thoughts.
I see it as God being the author of love. Love is about Him. We get involved in the story but it's all about His glory and His love. I do see the beauty of loving unconditionally as you mention though. Love should never be about us, but about us emoting towards something/someone outside ourself. Love truly is placing others before us. "We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters." 1 John 3:16
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