So this is what it means to Love...

I think so...umm - craft what? Quite likely I am a little slow on the uptake

Awesome thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:loveclouds2:

Well, I can offer the following observations about love:

(1) Love just "is" - there is no one I love "most" and no one I love "least." That is, love isn't divisible into portions I mete out to others. Nor is it limited. Other things are limited such as time, energy, etc., so our expressions of love will be limited, but not the love itself.

(2) Love loves the unlovable, not requiring any kind of performance or change in behavior. Love loves others "just as they are."

(3) Love is demonstrated. More than a warm, fuzzy feeling. As someone usually says "love is a verb."

(4) Love is two-way, so love is more than just a "verb." The heart that opens up to give love needs to stay open to receive the love of others, and the latter is far harder to do than it would appear. You see, when we "give" love, we decided who to love; we decide how to love; we decide when to love; and we even decide when to stop.

But when we open up our hearts to receive the love of others, we lose all that sense of control. We must be vulnerable to receive love. So in addition to love being a "verb," love is also "surrender."

First one has to understand love, love has no sense now does it?

I propose love to be nonsense, and each one of us that has learned to love as non-sensible.

Yes, religionists are slaves.

You always glorify Him Lisa - praise God!

Wow, awesome OP ! Jesus/God loves Everyone and we should also do the same ! Everything that has the breathe of life is from God no matter who or what we are.

Praise God - TY LoJ

Slow, oh no, I have an odd way with words.

I was imagining a belief system, let's say religion for example:

I Am religion " ______"; therefore, I believe "_______".

Now flip the script, "I believe ______"; therefore, I Am.

I don't know if it would work, we are clued in to some of the ideals already. Kind of like memorizing the eye chart, and getting all the letters right without looking.

Overall, by crafting, I meant building from scratch....
"Okay McGyver, let's see what we can craft from these common household items".

Does that make any sense? I hope so,

True love is hard to find it likes to hide from the rest of the world.

Yes it makes sense...you're funny!

Here's the thing though...I *can't* do that because I am adamantly opposed to *religion*!

This is the whole of the point - Jesus "Is" - the relationship with Him *is* glorious (good times / hard times) life "giving" and awesome beyond articulation!

Yes, if it all goes back to one....at what point can we try to break the chain we descended from? Is it not the same chain that we will return upon?

Darn...did you peek? LOL

Okay, I'm impartial at this point having swung one way or another, so it shouldn't be a deal killer...

How about instead of the word religion, we use "belief system?"

Thanks for your question Lil Lioness! I think the illustration is not quite fair enough - it's not so much about breaking the chain we descended from but about receiving the most important *Life* that we didn't have when we were born...life that wasn't "there" to begin with!

Your belief system allows unconditional love, based on forgiveness.

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YES!!!

I don't believe I possess the same knowledge as you on this belief; therefore, I do not understand.

Do you understand this because of a teaching?

1-1

Yes, I'll take that...! ;0)

Yes...His Holy Word!

Lil Lioness - I've gotta go make dinner - will check back for you in a bit

you are turning GLP into a christian dating site.

all your talk of love and god will attract a mate.

we need more guns n god.

i want to see a jesus with an "i love dad" tattoo in an abrahms tank
doing donuts on a mosque.

you want rainbow bubbly turtle fahts.

20 Questions:

This is interesting and just for fun...

Belief-o-Matic:

[link to www.beliefnet.com]

I did this, and by an overwhelming degree, the Belief-o-Matic said, I share beliefs with....wait for it......a

Liberal Quaker

I've never met a Quaker I didn't like, but then again, not sure if I've actually met one yet...

=o)

I'm almost certain there's a site that advertises no application will be turned down for any reason, "Match-some-thin", don't give up!

Hate is bad

Interesting result. I started the quiz but gave up after answering "none of the above" or not being able to find a suitable reply to a number of questions.

'I honor the place within you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place within you of love, of light, of truth, of peace; I honor the place within you, where, when you are in that place in you, and I am in that place with me, there is only one of us'

This is my favorite interpretation of love: also known as 'Namaste'

You give love to receive love.

You act out love to spread love.

Love is through actions, and admiring the sameness within others that is same within you.

God is manifested and personified through our actions of love.

Same, you can change the level of importance to low...thanks for playing, I can learn something from everything...

K

Bon appetite!

Me too, trying out a new pizza recipe, enjoy

Only someone with low self-esteem will love unconditionally and forgive those who hurt them.

How can you stop the fear that sets in when you start feeling the love-I get periods of the love I know it is there but then my mind goes back to being afraid. Afraid that if I don't follow all the rules that I have heard/known that I will be put in Hell-I am so ridiculous And the most bizarre thing is I was never raised religiously, don't go to church and my parents raised me to believe in something, but not religion. Ever since being on GLP I am more scared. I read the things about God/Jesus and then think I better just listen otherwise God will not be with me. But the whole time I have believed in God/Jesus! Oh jeez does this make any sense at all? Sorry....and thanks
PS I never put much belief in Hell only because I was taught to focus on love instead. I really think all the Hell stuff is just negativity etc......but then I get scared because I think if I think on my own I will be ignored by God. Maybe that made it clearer
I can rewrite this if I need....lol