A Crash Course on Love: # Lesson 3
Love is a Concrete Life style! Love is not just a feeling; it is not just a sentiment. Love is a decision; a commitment; a life-style. It is a life style because we are loved into existence; our very origin is love. God loved us first and we are therefore expected to love; if we do not love, we do not understand our own nature! And no one can call oneself, spiritual, faithful, holy, religious, or pious, if he or she does not love his or her brother or sister. Faith, Hope and Love, these three remain; "but the greatest of these is Love" (1 Cor 13:13), because God is love (1 Jn 4:8). And this love has to be seen in the concrete day to day choices... the choice of words, of actions and of priorities. Love is giving of oneself without expecting; Love is the power of being children of God; Love is taking the side of the needy and the suffering, the last and the least, the exploited and the desperate. Love is a concrete life style that makes present God, here and now, for all, especially those who need the most!