♪♫ "When our hope is hard to find and our faith is in decline, we need a cause to stand behind -- LOVE. We all want the way it feels. Time it comes and time it steals. What remains, what is real -- LOVE. There is love. There is forgiveness. There is love in times of need. When life is cold, there is a promise you will never go without." ♫♪
I just had a chat on Facebook with one of my colleagues at work. This woman seem to be infatuated with a certain man who we use to work with in another call center. That was already five years ago. I thought she had already gotten over him. To my surprise, she makes me log in to my Facebook profile so that she could look into his profile. Fortunately, the guy is one of my connections. As always, it has been the subject of our chat.
So I ask her what is love? She said love is a complex thing. I shared my own opinion as well and the conversation grew longer and more interesting. She had very good views about love but I wasn't satisfied. I feel like I needed to tell her what love in the Christian sense is all about. I just had a little problem. I didn't know how to break the message without leading it into an argument.
By the grace of God, I was inspired to search for the definition of the word in an online dictionary. I remembered someone from the ministry talking about love being a verb and a noun. So I consulted Merriam - Webster, and indeed the minister was right. Love is a verb and a noun. It is both a feeling and an action. I asked my friend which one she likes best and she said both. The two cannot be separated.
She actually had a point. How can you show love to people when you don't know what it is? And it is through experience that we learn best. But as the conversation went on, I somehow got the feeling she still was about to confuse love with sensuality. And that was when the song came up. I searched for a video of the song on YouTube and shared her the link. She liked the song so much and I was so happy I was able to share God's message of love to one person.
