"I Love You"
Do you?
Are your feelings the result of your actions and attitude toward me or a statement of your desire for me?
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offered by Kc | 3/08/2006 05:32:00 AM
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Are your feelings the result of your actions and attitude toward me or a statement of your desire for me?
13 Comments:
I am thinking not "desire for you." =)
Could it be said that "I love you" doesn't necessarily express a "feeling" at all?
Sometimes I think of love as an intention ... a mindset ... of looking for that person's good, that person's edification etc...
(It is nice when that intention is accompanied by feelings and/or appropriate desire. ;~) )
Depends on who I say it to. Like Rose said, towards some people, I'm not expressing a feeling, but a bond we have in Christ or a bond we have as family. Others, yes, I have said the phrase to express feelings or desires.
Wouldn't there be a distinction between feeling love and feelings of love? Feeling love would be the consequence of being loved while feelings of love should be the consequence of loving someone I would think. At present I'm thinking that more often than not when one would say I love you it is based on the anticipation of being loved rather than the consequence of actually loving someone else. What do you think?
Sis wouldn't that be the way the world loves? I'm thinking of Matthew 5:
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Hi Kc
I Love You is a emotion and a devotion. If I tell a person that I love them , it means that I wanting to be with them forever with the Lord. I do not use those words in less I mean it.My heart is so soft with love that if I say I Love You you can take that to the Bank. Jesus is my Love .
I Love You All
Doug
Brother Doug I really like that, an expression of how you feel as well as an assurance of your intent. I really do believe you and I love you too brother. ;-)
I wish I knew how to quit you!
But you don't Dorse, any more than I know how to quit you! ;-)
Hey Dee! Thanks for weighing in on this one. I'm really wondering what it is someone is actually relating when they say "I love you". I think for believers it should be quite different than for non-believers but I'm not sure we can restrict it to agape. I'm suspecting that we (mankind) actually know very little about love and that as a people our knowledge is decreasing, not increasing. My basis for that is my belief that God is love and that to fully know love we must fully know God. But still we say, "Ilove you".
Jayne, Jim had a blog on that topic over at Faith Classics that you'd probably appreciate. BTW I really appriciate that rambling. ;-)
LOL @ Dorsey.
I'm not sure everyone understands what you are saying, Dorsey.
But thats ok, it cracked me up bad the first time I heard you say it, i almost broke my back!
Kc,
Love is never having to say your sorry..... How many times have I heard that.
Which is a lie. Love is being able to say your sorry and love is forgiving the person that wronged you.
Of course the love that sustains the world never has to say its sorry. He has nothing to be sorry about.
Kris love means never having to know how to quit you! (haha!)
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