Comments on: To seek God is to seek love http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 110001110 http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-28012 110001110 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:20:35 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-28012 I'm not so sure about referring to love as God, if the idea is backwards compatible, sounds like New Age movement way of thinking. Love is a concept, God is an identity, good thought nevertheless. I’m not so sure about referring to love as God, if the idea is backwards compatible, sounds like New Age movement way of thinking. Love is a concept, God is an identity, good thought nevertheless.

]]> By: Explore your doubts, but do so in peace | Conversion Diary http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-26833 Explore your doubts, but do so in peace | Conversion Diary Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:09:14 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-26833 [...] God is love, love itself, so keep in mind that a quest to find the truth about God is a quest to find the truth about Love. And it doesn’t take much life experience to know that the way we approach love can be easily tainted by bad experiences and woundedness. An example I often think of is someone who has a hard time forming healthy, loving relationships because of unresolved hurts from his past: he can’t see the truth about current, potentially positive relationships because his view is clouded by all the lingering negativity. He can’t see the truth about love. Similarly, when we’re looking for the truth about Love itself, it’s as much an emotional quest as it is an intellectual quest, and it’s easy for emotions to throw us far off course. [...] [...] God is love, love itself, so keep in mind that a quest to find the truth about God is a quest to find the truth about Love. And it doesn’t take much life experience to know that the way we approach love can be easily tainted by bad experiences and woundedness. An example I often think of is someone who has a hard time forming healthy, loving relationships because of unresolved hurts from his past: he can’t see the truth about current, potentially positive relationships because his view is clouded by all the lingering negativity. He can’t see the truth about love. Similarly, when we’re looking for the truth about Love itself, it’s as much an emotional quest as it is an intellectual quest, and it’s easy for emotions to throw us far off course. [...]

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]]> By: Paolo http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-18506 Paolo Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:58:27 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-18506 Jennifer, thank you for your post: I'm a convert from atheism like you - I come form a educated and secularized family (I'm Italian, forgive my possibly bad English) - so I can share some of your insights and difficulties.<br />In my experience, the equation you offer between God and Love - which is of course at the heart of the Gospels - has always been illuminating; you underline one direction of the equation, how the insight that God is Love opens a (or better, the) path for our living partecipation in His mystery. <br />The other direction is vital, as well: love is really what the life in God is, and we must let ourselves be drawn toward this wider measure and reality.<br />This may seem abstract at first, and difficult too: here is where our understanding of love often conflicts with the commandments of God as teached by the Church. Christ's cross is *the* scandal for human love, and the same holds for so many saints whose lives and acts were perceived as a disturbing, even absurd, excess. <br />In every authentic Christian experience is present the realization that <br />1) something different<br />2) happened.<br />The fact that we can<br />1) encounter<br />2) somehow understand and <br />3) try to follow <br />the concrete Christ and His saints, their acts and choices - and the hidden living spiritual reality - removes the abstraction and open us to the different, astonishing thing that God's Love really is.<br />I invite you to read again and again John's incredible first letter.<br /><br />God bless you, pray for me and my family,<br />Paolo Jennifer, thank you for your post: I'm a convert from atheism like you – I come form a educated and secularized family (I'm Italian, forgive my possibly bad English) – so I can share some of your insights and difficulties.
In my experience, the equation you offer between God and Love – which is of course at the heart of the Gospels – has always been illuminating; you underline one direction of the equation, how the insight that God is Love opens a (or better, the) path for our living partecipation in His mystery.
The other direction is vital, as well: love is really what the life in God is, and we must let ourselves be drawn toward this wider measure and reality.
This may seem abstract at first, and difficult too: here is where our understanding of love often conflicts with the commandments of God as teached by the Church. Christ's cross is *the* scandal for human love, and the same holds for so many saints whose lives and acts were perceived as a disturbing, even absurd, excess.
In every authentic Christian experience is present the realization that
1) something different
2) happened.
The fact that we can
1) encounter
2) somehow understand and
3) try to follow
the concrete Christ and His saints, their acts and choices – and the hidden living spiritual reality – removes the abstraction and open us to the different, astonishing thing that God's Love really is.
I invite you to read again and again John's incredible first letter.

God bless you, pray for me and my family,
Paolo

]]> By: rollercoasterdoubter http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-18426 rollercoasterdoubter Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:05:53 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-18426 I wish I could wrap my head around this concept with you more, but I have issues that continue to mess with my head.<br /><br />http://rollercoasterdoubter.blogspot.com/2010/01/introduction.html<br /><br />Come on by if you think you can answer my questions. I wish I could wrap my head around this concept with you more, but I have issues that continue to mess with my head.

http://rollercoasterdoubter.blogspot.com/2010/01/introduction.html

Come on by if you think you can answer my questions.

]]> By: Jamie http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-18378 Jamie Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:57:51 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-18378 Isn't thatthe truth, Jen? Thanks for the lovely post and re-post. Isn't thatthe truth, Jen? Thanks for the lovely post and re-post.

]]> By: Lisa V. http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-18376 Lisa V. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:29:43 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-18376 I'd never thought about my relationship with God as a "love story" before. But that is exactly what it is. Thanks for giving me that viewpoint. It's exciting. I'd never thought about my relationship with God as a "love story" before. But that is exactly what it is. Thanks for giving me that viewpoint. It's exciting.

]]> By: Babs http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-18374 Babs Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:12:38 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-18374 Great post. As a life-long Catholic Christiam, #2 will be a big help in my spiritual stumblings. The less I'm full of myself, the more room for Love. Great post. As a life-long Catholic Christiam, #2 will be a big help in my spiritual stumblings. The less I'm full of myself, the more room for Love.

]]> By: Maggie Dee http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-18373 Maggie Dee Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:07:55 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-18373 Beautiful post! This is what I pray for my children, "That they will never go where the love of God will not find them." Beautiful post! This is what I pray for my children, "That they will never go where the love of God will not find them."

]]> By: Carl http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html/comment-page-1#comment-18371 Carl Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:08:42 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2010/01/to-seek-god-is-to-seek-love.html#comment-18371 You have a way of expressing things that so many of us feel but are unable to put into words. Thanks. You have a way of expressing things that so many of us feel but are unable to put into words. Thanks.

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