About 4 or 5 years ago I read Dan Allender's book "Bold Purpose." It was a very fun and creative read. It was partly a narrative of the book of Ecclesiastes. It inspired me so much that I picked up another book of his called "Bold Love."
Love is such a boring thing to read about. It is really not even a concept that excites me intellectually. Should it? Maybe or maybe not, seeing as love may be more an act of the heart or the will than of the mind, at least initially.
Anyway, I am picking up this book to read because I think that I am realizing just how poorly I actually "love" people. Real, tough, grace filled love is heart wrenching. Boy do I need to grow.
You're a good man, John.
Posted by: Tommy | February 01, 2008 at 09:44 AM
My senior year of college, I took a philosophy class called, "Love and Friendship." It was pretty boring. It's really hard capturing love in any objective sense. When you try and describe it, it ends up sounding like a sociology paper, which really cheapens the expirence. I think that's why concepts like love should be left mostly to poetry and music, which do better at capturing the intangibles. Kind of like I Corinthians 13, which is not technically poetry, but written a lot like it.
Posted by: Eric | February 09, 2008 at 11:34 AM