Would you trade being in love, being able to love, and being loved for wealth, fame, and contentment? And do you see love as something you feel or something you do?
2006-10-01 03:56:00 · 16 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For me Love is life. I could no more stop loving that I could stop breathing. As long as I live I shall love. It is who I am. Without Love life would not have meaning and I am not speaking of romantic love.
2006-10-01 04:00:20 · update #1
. How high a value do I place on the ones I have invested my love? The ones I love are my life and they are worth my life if it were ever to come down to that.
For wealth? I would Absolutely Not choose money over love! Love is 'spiritual money'. When you love greatly you also give so much of yourself that sometimes you have nothing left EXCEPT now you have FRIENDS and Loved ones who will do anything for you if you ask them. Somebody told me once about money, "You can't take it with you." Well, that is not entirely true. If I give as Jesus instructs then those to whom I give might believe and meet me in heaven. Now that is the best return on investment I can imagine!! I may be broke (actually, i am broke) but when I need something I just pick up the phone and call my friends. What is better, to have money to pay a mechanic to fix your broken car? or To have your friend who is a mechanic to come to your house and fix your car and then stay for dinner?
Fame? Hmmm! If I had to choose, I suppose I would choose love, but nobody has ever asked me to make that choice before. I did however defend someone who was not very well liked because of his race and for doing so, I was called many names and ridiculed so if ridicule was the opposite of fame, well, there you go.
Contentment? I have chosen love over contentment and it was a bit of a sacrafice for several years but well worth it. Sometimes there is still pain but not so much that I should complain. We must often wait for contentment in love, that is when we must excercise faith to get us through what we must suffer.
Love brings great feelings and requires us to do many things about it or else life means very little. Love requires action. If we do not do something about our feelings then it is only infatuation and not love.
2006-10-01 06:07:55 · answer #1 · answered by TheNewCreationist 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would not trade love or the ability to love for wealth or fame. I wouldn't be content because without love I have nothing.
I feel that love is what gets us through life, whether it is platonic among friends, the natural love of mankind, or romantic love. It is more than an emotion, it is something that I do. But even more greater than the types of love I give to people is the Greatest love anyone can have and that is the gift of Love from Jesus.
2006-10-01 04:15:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love is the one thing that sustains us through life's storms and seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It's worth far more than the material aspects of fame and wealth. And contentment? That's an impossibility without love. At the very least, love of self.
Love is too often mistaken for a noun. In actuality, love is a verb. It IS the creative impetus or motivation for "action." Consequently, it is "do" rather than simply "feel." The feeling of love is like the icing on the cake. Sometimes that icing is joyous. At other times, like when facing and dealing with something like the potential death of a child, it is incredibly painful and bitter icing. But the true meaning of love is in the actions we take no matter what love requires us to face.
2006-10-01 04:04:52 · answer #3 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2006-10-01 03:59:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I place a high price on 'love'. Recently my understanding of what 'love' or empathy or compassion actually is has been going through a big change. It is still an idea in progress.
Love is something I do. I feel that romantic love is an illusion. I have chosen to love my husband. I am committed to him. What caused me to 'partner up' with him many years ago was a complete illusion that I created for myself.
Compassion is not pity, it is acceptance of what is. It is an attitude. It does not baby or mollify.
2006-10-01 04:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me love can not really be real until you experience Gods love first.
Human love is mostly conditional.We can look at a person that is
beautiful and "fall in love" but someone that is lets say grossly disfigured will turn us off.We can love someone that is agreeable with us
and makes us feel good but someone that is hateful or mean we will not
love our human love is a lot conditional but Gods Love is UNCONDITIONAL he loves us with our grossly disfigured nature and
whether we are fat,lazy,smart and hard workers or drug addicts.God
Loves us even when we HATE HIM.When I learned how much God Loved
me and I put my FAITH in His Love Gift (Jesus) I was changed to really know how to give true Love first to my wife and immediate family then to
my immediate friends.I just pray that someone will let Jesus come in their life as Lord and Savior and find out what real Love is.
Joh 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
Joh 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
In Christ in Love,
TJ57
2006-10-01 04:26:35 · answer #6 · answered by TJ 57 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love is extremely important to me. I would pass up wealth and fame for love. When I feel love I have contentment so to me I can not pass love up for contentment.
2006-10-01 03:58:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Agape love... is priceless from my father in heaven, and eternal. As for the rest, I cherish and hold what I have and have had even though much has become just a memory of someone dear. And no, there is nothing material that could exchange for it.
love is both, giving and receiving, you have to understand both sides..
2006-10-01 04:01:10 · answer #8 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have given up a lot for love .. for the love of my children , husband and family
i could have been wealthy , i could have had a little fame ... but that would not have brought me contentment
love comes at a high ( material ) price quite often .. but it is all worth it
love is feeling and doing xx
2006-10-01 04:01:14 · answer #9 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only those who know God, can truly know love. No,nothing would replace my love for God-no money no nothing. He provides His followers with what they need. Love is something you do as He requested us to work with what He gave us so we may provide for those who cannot, (ie the maimed the sick the poor) giving to those who need is of the kingdom of Heaven. Those who avert their eyes from the poor will be cursed ( that is in the bible ~ somewhere ).
Love is invaluable, it is completeness.
2006-10-01 04:05:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋