What is love? (page 4)

bikerchic

Hell, I'd be analyzing my corpse, if I could.

I'll give you a poke if you do!

nvrgnbk

Love is what's going on right here, right now, on JWD.

Great thread onacruse. I knew you were a softy. LOL!

I appreciated all the descriptions, but the fave was FMW's.

Nvr

aligot ripounsous

Love

When my grandma got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa does it for her now all the

time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.

Rebecca- age 8

Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving Cologne and they go out and smell each other.

Kari- age 5

Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French Fries without making them give you any of theirs.

Chrissy- age 6

Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.

Danny- age 7

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend whom you hate.

Nikka- age 6

Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.

Noelle- age 7

Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.

Tommy- age 6

My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.

Clare- age 6

Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.

Chris- age 7

Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.

Mary Ann- age 4

UnConfused

I don't know, but I know it when I feel it or see it.

I do not know if the book is still available, but William Barclay provides a most comprehensive discussion of Agape and Agapan in "New Testament Words", pages 17 to 30. My copy is copyright SCM Press, 1964. He includes discussions on eros, storge, and philia.

I will try to get time to provide some quotes from the book.

Barclay says "Agape has to do with the mind: it is not simply an emotion which rises unbidden in our hearts; it is a principle by which we deliberately live. Agape has to do with the will. It is a conquest, a victory, and achievemnt. No one naturally loved his enemies. To love one's enemies is a conquest of all our natural inclinations and emotions" (page 21)

Doug

Earnest

Love is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his heighth be taken.

My translation :

Love is what we look to/for when we are lost, but although we can see it, and be drawn to it, we know nothing about it

Alwayshere

Love is a feeling you feel, when you feel a feeling you never felt before.

Sparkplug

My six year old says she is in Love with Sonny from American Idol. I told her jokingly that "she does not even know what falling in love is..." She answered, "Sure she does. It is Hugging, kissing...falling....You know, stuff like that!"

I laughed so hard. For truly she is right. It is all about hugging kissing and falling. lol

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