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We tend to think of love as emotion, as opposed to idea or reason or will. Perhaps that view of love lies behind Pascal's observation, "The heart is made for love and has its reasons which the reason knows nothing of."
When our elder daughter was three, she defined love as "something you do that is ridiculous." Her childish definition is close to the scriptural meaning of love. When asked to elaborate on he commandment, "love your neighbor as yourself," Jesus told a story of a Samaritan who helped a Jewish victim of a mugging. This alien from Samaria spent time and money to save the life of a Judean stranger. But we are not told what the Samaritan actually felt. No emotion is named, no sentiment identified, no feeling given recognition. Love indeed is something we do. Sometimes it may even seem ridiculous. -- Bristow
When our elder daughter was three, she defined love as "something you do that is ridiculous." Her childish definition is close to the scriptural meaning of love. When asked to elaborate on he commandment, "love your neighbor as yourself," Jesus told a story of a Samaritan who helped a Jewish victim of a mugging. This alien from Samaria spent time and money to save the life of a Judean stranger. But we are not told what the Samaritan actually felt. No emotion is named, no sentiment identified, no feeling given recognition. Love indeed is something we do. Sometimes it may even seem ridiculous. -- Bristow
