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Bill Moyer's article
referenced the idea that Love entails Responsibility. Upon reflection,
this is a crucial aspect that can be the litmus test which all that our
modern overused word "love" should undergo re-examination.
The article quoted: But the love I mean is the love described by
Reinhold Niebuhr in his book of essays Justice and Mercy, where he
writes: "When we talk about love we have to become mature or we will
become sentimental. Basically love means...being responsible,
responsibility to our family, toward our civilization, and now by the
pressures of history, toward the universe of humankind."
Reflection within our everyday livesIndeed, when many grownups
look back to their relationship with parents, often Asian fathers, and
the lack of emotional display of love, yet still say: "the way that he
provided for us, we know he loved us." Indeed, it is the
responsible-ness of love that is felt.
When we say we love our children, it is not simply the fun part of
playing with them, but the heavier burden to provide, care, and protect
them from unanticipated situations. Any parent who do not care much
about the future of their children cannot really be loving them.
Similarly, when we say "we love life" or anything else, we can check
whether we truly take responsibility for the result and the future of
our life, in which case we would be planning long term strategies or
building it as we would anything else that needs care.
So whatever we love, whether people, life, community, country, ...
we need to ask whether we simply indulge in the present, of what we can
enjoy now, or whether we are accepting the responsibility for future
development.
Application to head-ship
The most debatable issue in any Bible Studies is Paul's instruction for
wifes to submit to their hudsbands. And even if we read the part that
"hudsbands shall love their wives" that God will hold them accountable
for their families, there is still a sense of injustice that influences
from the modern feminist movement would despise. But if we were to
recognize this article's lesson, that the hudsbands have responsibility
to God for the welfare of their wives, (because they are accountable to
God for the spiritual well being of their family), then the consequence
would not be so difficult to swallow.
Analogously in everyday life, we often willingly obey leaders who
takes on responsibilities, and only feel a sense of rebellion when we
sense that the leaders are not being responsible. |
Written by shareacare on 2006-08-25 03:35:12
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