tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post1371858233372450944..comments2023-10-28T07:04:25.925-04:00Comments on A Theology of Desire: Close to youUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-3693249849026939832009-10-05T19:25:24.102-04:002009-10-05T19:25:24.102-04:00The first comment is something I "preach"...The first comment is something I "preach" to my nieces!! The second is just a "public" quote...do as you wish.Ikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595879576794400791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-51836047869163141922009-10-05T18:13:02.148-04:002009-10-05T18:13:02.148-04:00it may not be cool but i heart karen carpenter sti...it may not be cool but i heart karen carpenter still!Pranayama mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06720061810198398947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-57453207707814218222009-10-05T17:42:31.527-04:002009-10-05T17:42:31.527-04:00Wow, Ike! Would you mind if I posted this comment ...Wow, Ike! Would you mind if I posted this comment on the blog itself? It's fantastic stuff, and I'd like to be able to tag it and have it be searchable.<br /><br />(PS: I briefly included a YouTube window of the song, but it was just too ugly to permit, so I left it as a link instead.)Suzanne Marie DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09724481265474654929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-22109678976196824842009-10-05T16:45:34.238-04:002009-10-05T16:45:34.238-04:00In his biography of Jonathan Edwards, page 497, Ge...In his biography of Jonathan Edwards, page 497, George Marsden writes, "In the Edwardses' world, the meaning of life was found in intense loves, including earthly loves." It was the tone of their life together. They understood that God is of such a nature, creation is for such a purpose, redemption is of such a power, that intensity of love is the meaning of it all. Intensity. Passion. Wholeheartedness. <br /><br />Deuteronomy 6:5 makes intense love the greatest commandment: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." Moderate love is a sin. Maybe the worst sin. <br /><br />As Augustine said, "Give me a man in love. He knows what I mean."Ikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595879576794400791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-90954892981176709262009-10-05T15:05:04.979-04:002009-10-05T15:05:04.979-04:00A YouTube of the Carpenters singing this song........A YouTube of the Carpenters singing this song......would have been "cool"!<br /><br /><br /> For the most part...when a man tells a woman that he loves her...what he is really saying is that he loves himself and wants her.<br /><br /> How does God love? Love is not so much an attribute of God as it is His very essence. It is not so much a moral perfection of His being as it is His being itself.Ikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595879576794400791noreply@blogger.com