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There is love of course. And then there's life,...
| There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. |
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| Name: Adrielle | 2012-11-21 |
| The love between a paenrt (mom) and child is not symmetrical as would be, say, the love between a husband and wife. The mode in which a paenrt gives love to a child is, therefore, much different than the mode in which the child reciprocates love back to the paenrt. The paenrt expresses love through unending sacrifice and devotion to the child's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well being. This love is not contingent in any way on the child earning it. The paenrt-to-child love is part of the genetic and spiritual code of normal human existence.The child, on the other hand, shows love back to the paenrt in keeping the family code, honoring the paenrt's value system, etc. In short, the child shows love back to the paenrt by striving to live up to the paenrt's expectations of them. In my view, a paenrt must give the child clear expectations so that the child will then have a vehicle by which to express their love back to the paenrt. If expectations aren't there, the child is powerless to express love back to their paenrt.I'm saying all this assuming normal paenrt/child relationships. Things go off track when the child has no expectations on which to hang their love, or if the paenrt expects the child to mirror their love in the form of devotion. This is also how I see God's love modeled for his children. His love is unconditional and comes to us first. Our love is secondarily back to Him, and is demonstrated by how we keep His commandments (John 14:15) and strive to live up His expectations. In my view, a sin is missing the mark on what God expects of his kids. |
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