Clears throat
Love filled evening, lovelies
Wow, Love. Love. Love!!!
What about Love?
What is love? What is not love?
What comes to your mind when you hear the word, LOVE? Money? Marriage? Sex? You? Him/
Her?Feelings? Relationships? God? There's always something you hear at the mention of love.
I remember sometime ago, a campus fellowship invited for a meeting, I can't recall the exact theme now but the focus was Love. The Text was, Ephesians 3:17-19
[17]That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
[18]May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
[19]And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Just some days to the meeting, the folks called that some senior colleagues visited amongst which were Pastors. Somehow, they saw their program outline and they said because I am not Married, they should get another speaker. The leaders told them, "It is not a relationship seminar sir/ma" and one of the Pastors said, "there's no way you will talk about love, and not talk about marriage/marital relationships.
The Bible text isn't even one of those used for relationship/marriage seminar. And even if, does that mean one who isn't married can't teach on Marital Relationship/Marriage? Well, that's not my focus tonight. So, what came to their mind when they heard or read LOVE is marriage/marital relationships.
To some, it's Sex. You tell a lady "I love you" and what she hears is "I want to have sex with you". You tell a gentleman, "I love you" and what he hears is "She's asking me to date her". To some others, haven said I love you, they expect you to ask for their alc number and send some naira. . And so on. You know the thoughts right.
So, there's so much about love. Pretty much. It's one of the greatest forces in the world. Since it's the first night, we're just having this brief gist on it so it's not too long.
From studies, I found out that while we only have one word for it~LOVE, the ancient Greeks in their pursuit of wisdom and self-understanding, found seven different varieties of love that we all experience at some point.
We're gonna look at it tomorrow. When we understand the different types of love out there, we can become conscious of how deep our connection is with ourselves and the other people in our lives, and we'll know what/who LOVE is and is not.
Inspired by!
Min. Eguono Love Ovie. The singer of [ ECESS LOVE ]
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