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Posted by
officegirl November 25, 2018 -
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Relationships
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Love is relationship. Positive interaction between people where all in some way benefit.
I am not speaking of the agape of The Bible or of romantic love, though my definition might include them as well, but of imperfect human love.
Love ranges from the most simple and even inane public greeting to the highly complex group dynamic or diplomatic agreement. It is quite simply people working together for the common good. Whether that be within a community, a family, between a couple, in a marriage, a business, on the world stage, or just people getting together to accomplish something. Or to celebrate themselves and their condition.
Love does not exist in a vacuum. And we really cannot love just ourselves. Desiring love we reach out to others for the kind of affirmation, approval, acceptance, discussion, agreement, and joy we can only realize and attain in relationship. God did not create us to be alone. In love we recognize our incompleteness as individuals and admit our need for and dependence upon one another.