Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Monday, June 4, 2007
Love
I remember watching a movie about a mormon missionary called to served on the pacific islands of Tonga. Before he sets off his family gathered round the train station to bid farewell to this Elder. Then a voice from the crowd shouted "speech". The voice was referring to the father who was about to cry when he said "I do not know anyone in Tonga well enough to love them and send them my son."... then there was a pause and then he said "But i guess God does."
This leads me to conclude one important principle about love. Knowledge preceeds love, which leads us to conclude that perhaps love at first sight is actually false because it does not qualify nor satisfy the condition that preceeds love. Let us call this kind of love as "genuine love" just for the matter of terminology. Let me give you one example of genuine love, God loves us because He knows each and everyone of us, our fears, our weaknesses, our strengths and our ideals.
And as much as the love of a parent to a child, because they knew their children very well from their infancy until they grew to maturity, is actually a genuine love.
i guess when i come looking for a wife, a companion for eternity then i guess i want it to be a true love, a genuine love.
I have a bestfriend, i came to her life just recently, around mid-February of 2007, yet little did she know that she is the girl that i admire ever since we were young. I'm actually her biggest fan. I have never seen a person so beautiful and intelligent as her. I came to know her in seminary class in our church. I guess she was not aware that i am admiring her at a distance. Sometimes i would chicken out just to talk to her.
That was seven years ago, and i wasted that seven years of choosing not to talk to her and befriend her. That was my regret and i had my second chance last February 2007. The wasted seven years deprived me of the opportunity to knowing more about her thus also prevented me of the chance to love her. As time would go my knowledge about her lessens until i cannot go back and return to that chance of knowing her.
But now that i am talking to her, befriending her and knowing more about her leads me to the possibility to be able to love her. I pray that i will not lose this second chance. I pray that this will lead to "genuine love".
This leads me to conclude one important principle about love. Knowledge preceeds love, which leads us to conclude that perhaps love at first sight is actually false because it does not qualify nor satisfy the condition that preceeds love. Let us call this kind of love as "genuine love" just for the matter of terminology. Let me give you one example of genuine love, God loves us because He knows each and everyone of us, our fears, our weaknesses, our strengths and our ideals.
And as much as the love of a parent to a child, because they knew their children very well from their infancy until they grew to maturity, is actually a genuine love.
i guess when i come looking for a wife, a companion for eternity then i guess i want it to be a true love, a genuine love.
I have a bestfriend, i came to her life just recently, around mid-February of 2007, yet little did she know that she is the girl that i admire ever since we were young. I'm actually her biggest fan. I have never seen a person so beautiful and intelligent as her. I came to know her in seminary class in our church. I guess she was not aware that i am admiring her at a distance. Sometimes i would chicken out just to talk to her.
That was seven years ago, and i wasted that seven years of choosing not to talk to her and befriend her. That was my regret and i had my second chance last February 2007. The wasted seven years deprived me of the opportunity to knowing more about her thus also prevented me of the chance to love her. As time would go my knowledge about her lessens until i cannot go back and return to that chance of knowing her.
But now that i am talking to her, befriending her and knowing more about her leads me to the possibility to be able to love her. I pray that i will not lose this second chance. I pray that this will lead to "genuine love".
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