Oh God, please "teach me" love+ - that is not fake -
not just facade to cover over the
"maintain, protect, enhance" instincts I ache
to fill as hungers, thirsts inside of me.
There's kinds of 'love' that are self-serving use
of other folk as things to fill (to wit
they're not some human love, but an abuse
of others' giving me "the benefit
of doubt", attributing to me the myth*
of "love", that comes from gods/ immortals/ elves,
who have more than enough within, and give
of their resources, & give of themselves).
That quality of life, and way to treat
the others whom I bump against down here
's proof that there's another motive. Sweet!
Another Way to Live-and-Move's appeared
upon this Earth, from heaven, "from above",
that's energized by mechanisms more
than can be quite accounted for, this love,
this kind of life, is what we were made for.
And thus the forward way for wards of GOD,
is to maintain connection or infect-
-ion, letting such responsive love (not odd-
-ly serving self, as somehow "the elect")
-expressing in this part of Earth, as in
the heavens high above us, attitudes,
which can't come "from below" (some call that "sin")
and, as he loved these selves, to love> these dudes.
° "Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross!" Philippians 2:1-8
+ "Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: you should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody." 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12
* myth in the sense of meaning laden stories to somehow model for us helpful skills, understandings, and approaches to life; though aware of the phenomenon that many such stories (like Jesus's parables) don't depend on the story's own historicity or facticity in order for them to communicate what their author hoped to communicate i.e. for stories like the Greek folk stories commonly called Pandora's Box, or Orpheus & Eurydice, or the story Jesus told of the father with two sons (one of which took his inheritance & squandered it - commonly called The Prodigal Son)…; or the story about the man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves …(the story commonly called The Good Samaritan)…etc.
> "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No-one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: in this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister." 1 John 4:7-21
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