hmmm...
love is funny.
i know it is not the fairytale we grow up hearing about and believing in.
but still, i'd like to think it's more than a "choice"- a DECISION to make a COMMITTMENT....and blah blah blah.
doesn't seem very romantic or exciting to me.
love can change the course of your whole life.
had a cool conversation with my mom a few weeks ago about love and marriage, how loves changes, the things that make us fall in love, and those that keep us falling.
In "Still Life with Woodpecker" Tom Robbins wrote a lot about "making love stay"- he said that making love stay is inseperably intertwined with Mystery....when the mystery goes, love goes. (i'll throw a quote on later....he says it much better, i believe.)
oh and side note- i know that i sound like a Robbins fiend....i'm not, i swear it! Two of the last few novels i've read have been by him, and his writing has been provoking quite a bit of thought.
anyway must go.
more late...
hasta.
1 comment:
at times it may be a fairytale, but ask anyone with experience and at some point is does come to a choice.
And it seems that's what Jesus was getting at when he said:
"If you love me, you will obey what I command"
And Jesus' beloved disciple John put is this way:
"This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,"
both expressing a choice we make.
i know sort of hum drum and unpopular, but funny thing is often when we choose love the fairytale mysteriously reappears.
food for thought anyway.
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