FIVE LOVES
In his excellent book, Love Life for Every Married Couple, Ed Wheat wrote concerning the English word “love”: “Just having the one word for everything leads to confusion and absurd comparisons. For example, we love our lifelong sweetheart. But we also love fried chicken or quiche Lorraine, thus comparing our marriage partner of thirty years to a French cheese pie! We love our parents and our children. But we also love books or football or skiing vacations, apparently putting Mom and Dad on a par with a weekend at Vail (Colorado), or little Johnny in competition with the Dallas Cowboys. We love freedom, surely a thing more precious than the shiny machine in the driveway. But we love that new car; also we love our pet cat and a certain record album we bought last week. Not only do we love Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, but we ‘just love Robert Redford’–or Bob Hope. It all adds up…
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