#agape love

[cheerfullycatholic]

Let all that you do be done in love.

1 Corinthians 16:14

#catholicism #christianity #agape love

[caostalgia]

Cada día más ansioso

Cada día te siento más apagada, ¿Qué pasó hoy con nuestra intensidad? Entiendo, has de estar ocupada Pues solo regresas a tu voluntad

Aprendo a querer y aprendo a amar Si me pongo intenso me vas a detestar, Te extraño, ¿acaso eso está mal? Necesito tú tacto, esa es la verdad

Cada día más ansioso Es que la vida me consume, Necesito de tus besos Y el olor de tú perfume

Pongo "agape" y la bailamos en mi habitación Me das vida, es el placer de tú compañía, Regresas y cantamos aquella canción Nos amamos y estamos lejos, que ironía

Supongo que solo me queda esperar... Una reacción, un mensaje o una llamada, Después de todo eres lo primero que pienso en la mañana, Al despertar tú lugar aquí siempre estará.

Porque sabes que de ti fui, de ti soy y de ti seré.

Tony's Garden

#citas #notas #frases #tonysgarden #ansioso #ansiedad #agape love #intensidad #bailar contigo #extrañar #amar #notas de amor #te necesito #amor #apagada #mi hogar

[dramoor]

#saints #Christian #Justin Martyr #Lord Jesus Christ #pray for enemies #agape love #love one another

[aceinsearchofspace]

Growing up, I never really understood what it feels like to love someone. I don’t mean just romantic love but to just love in general (family, friends, etc.) I didn’t really know what love feels like. Abstract ideas are usually lost on me. How do I know that I love my family? What does it really mean to love my friends? Is it just caring about them? Being a Christian, I did a word study on love in the Bible and felt led to share its wisdom with you.

Love is not a feeling. It is an action. You choose to love those around you, but what does that look like in practice? Take a look at 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.

“Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs. Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”

The Greek word for love in this text is agape. That is the word for an unconditional, sacrificial love, not romance. It is also a verb. Agape is an action we can all practice with anyone in our lives that we care about or even with a stranger. If we are patient, kind, humble, selfless, forgiving with those around us, we are living in love. And this is how God loves us.

This is what it means to love someone. I’ve seen a lot of people on this website make posts not understanding what love truly means, so God put it on my heart to share with you what He taught me. This understanding of the passage really opened my eyes to what it means to love everyone in my life. I hope it helps you better understand what love is in everyday practice.

#love #christianity #bible #1 corinthians #side b #side b christian #aroace #agape love

[sadgirlbadpoems]

God help the man that breaks my little sister's heart for the first time.

I know her better than I know my own soul, she is so gentle, so forgiving, she'll take the blame off his shoulders and wear it for years.

But me? I've never been very gentle and I like to win.

He may be guiltless in her eyes, but an eldest sister's wrath is nigh on impossible to avoid.

I will find the things he covets and rip them from his arms, because if God doesn't save the man who breaks my baby sister, no one can.

#original poem #writeblr #writers and poets #girlhood #poetry #sisters #sisterhood #family #eldest sister #older sister #protective #agape love #devotion

[xys-fits]

Agape Love in One Piece

First One Piece devo of 2024 (cue thunderous applause)! This time, I talk about another character who displays another attribute of God. Read on to learn more about the characters in the featured image.

It’s the first One Piece blog of 2024! Sick of these yet? Well, unfortunately (or fortunately) for you, this series won’t be stopping anytime soon. I may take a break in May/June to focus more on topics related to those months, but that’s further down the line. Anyway, onto the actual post. One Piece obviously has a lot of characters that stand out for various reasons. Whitebeard’s no exception.…

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#ace #agape #agape love #anime devotional #christianity #edward newgate #forgiveness #god #grace #growth #One Piece #portgas d ace #unconditional love #whitebeard

[a-j-s-the-only]

Agape, selfless love

To love selfless is the key to happiness 

When all this world is but a mess

To give love to those undeserving 

They only are hurting

Loving selfless needs nothing in return

For the love itself is the hearts soft burn.

Providing heat to those who want to learn

#poets cafe #poets corner #life #poets on tumblr #poetry #my art #poem #poemsbyme #poetsclub #poems on tumblr #7 #selfless love #greek #agape love

[a-particular-quetzalcoatl]

Orihime and Agape

I feel like I put down Ichihime so much as a blog, but let me make this clear: I DON’T HATE ORIHIME. 

I don’t like the romantic dynamic of Ichigo and Orihime, but I actually do really like Orihime as a character. I just think that Ichigo diminishes Orihime as a character rather than lifting her up.

Orihime is painted as this airheaded, sweet, if somewhat eccentric girl at the beginning of the manga. She’s introduced as a girl who has clearly has a crush on Ichigo, and we think that for a bit, she’s this 1D type character that just acts as that stereotypical “love interest”.

But then we get to know her. Her deceased parents, her absent uncle, her brother who stepped in as her caretaker until he too passed away. We find that under that smile she has a real spine behind her words, a compassion that burns even with all that she’s gone through. She doesn’t hate anyone, but if they’re going to hurt the ones she cares about she is going to step up however she can.

This is why Arrancar arc is where she truly shines as a character. She walks into danger, as she knows its her only choice that she can make as herself. She fights her own battles, and it’s when she confronts Ulquiorra that she puts her foot down even though she knows how strong he is.

Onto a topic that I think is fascinating: her confession scene. 

I know a lot of Orihime fans argue that’s what cements Ichihime, but... that’s not what I got from that scene. By that point in the story, we already know Orihime is in love with Ichigo. What spoke to me is that fact that she confesses all of this despite Ichigo being unable to hear her. She knows he can’t hear her. She knows, but still goes out of her way to do one of the most heart-wrenching confessions I’ve ever seen.

“And then, for all those five times, I’d fall in love with the same person.”

But the way she confesses is focused on her, NOT Ichigo. She doesn’t assume he returns her feelings, but admits her own feelings. It’s not just “I love you”, it’s “I love you, but if you don’t feel the same, I’ll accept that.” And with the context of walking potentially to her death... it’s almost like she’s letting him go.

This idea of love freely given, without expectation of a return continues into the Arrancar arc, with her extending compassion even to those who would hurt her. This is most seen in her dynamic with Ulquiorra.

Ulquiorra is her kidnapper and tormentor. He hurts her friends, forces her to leave them, threatens to force-feed her, and almost kills Ichigo. But when he is dying, she still extends that kindness to him, even when most others would deem him unworthy of that compassion.

One of Orihime’s strongest points is her ability to embody agape: a love for mankind, and a love with no expectation of being returned. She’s still human, so she wants it to be returned... but if it isn’t, she accepts it.

I just wish they continued that sort of development in Fullbring and TYBW...

#bleach #bleach manga #bleach anime #Orihime Inoue #Orihime deserved better #pro orihime #agape love #character analysis #will eventually do a part 2 on her dynamic with ichigo

[swarehime73]

How do we know that God loved us first? 1) God made us in His image. 2) God personally created each one of us individually. 3) God sent Jesus to die on the cross before we were even born. God's love is faithful and unquestionable. We can only love God and others out of His love for us. Praise and worship Him today

#Godslove #agape love #livingthechristianlife #bible verse #equippingyouforliving #tumbler #christian faith

[venusdefined]

“What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise. To the extent that we abandon love, to that extent we will feel it has abandoned us.” - excerpt from A Return to Love

#love #quotes #lifeshapedbythoughts #relationships #agape love #unconditional love #marianne williamson #literature #all about love

[truedevotiondesign]

Agape

#agape #agape love #catholic #christian #catholic rosary #catholic art #christian art #hearts #pink #jesus #mary #hndmdbystephanie #etsy

[dramoor]

"Day after day, rest in God's heart.  No matter what unfolds, know that you are welcome there.  You are fully embraced by grace.  You are cradled in the place where healing begins."

~Dr. Mary C. Neal

#Orthodox Christian #Icons #Theotokos #Panagia #Lord Jesus Christ #Virgin Mary #rest in God's heart #agape love #embraced by grace #healing #Dr. Mary C. Neal

[ivaspinoza]

I saw your post about metamorphosis and i thought this would be interesting: what does love mean to you?

Short answer: love is not a feeling.

Long answer:

We have been given so many human definitions of love. It could be romantic or sexual, eros (ἔρως); friendly, brotherly love, phileo (φιλέω); unconditional love, agape (ἀγάπη), or even storge, mania, pragma, ludus; many "types" of love.

People buy flowers because "they love". They also kill "because they love", or "in the name of love". It is justifiable, because "I love you". If I "love" this, then it must be good. It feels nice.

Feelings are an amazing, curious thing. Very volatile, they change quickly. We sometimes let them guide our actions even though we know they are not a very reliable platform for decision making. Personally, I think feelings are an essential part of the human design, and they protect us as a language that teaches us.

One thing my husband taught me was to not suppress my feelings. When I feel upset, this feeling is pointing to something and I have to ask: what is that? Why does this upset me? Did this happen before? How did I react? Why? The real answers will not come easily, they might take hours, days or even years. It might be painful and you will have to sit in silence and not be afraid of the truth and reality itself.

Because when you suppress your feelings, at some point you won't know where or who you are anymore. The feelings become a cage, instead of a sign in your path. God forbid they might try to become your entire identity.

Writing like that is almost poetic, but it's not pretty when any of this happens. Depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, grief, disassociation, confusion, and all that shit — it's not pretty. It's ugly and painful. I will never advocate for the glorification of pain, suffering and pointless violence. It's only "aesthetics" if you have never been there.

Well, if love was a feeling, it would escape your hands, being volatile as feelings are, unreliable even; it would change its behaviour towards you once triggered. It would shout at your inner child even though it didn't mean to, because feelings are not morally accurate, they are just feelings. When you track down the root of a feeling, then we can enter the morality realm, but that's totally not the point here.

I'm not saying Love doesn't make us feel things (and some quite good ones, btw), but Love's nature is radically different from a feeling's one. Therefore, Love it's not emotion and sensation, although it touches all that.

Love could be an action? A thought? A concept? Mhm, yeah, yet all those things could never embody the magnitude of Love when isolated. Love requires action, thought, concept, and feelings; in the sense that a concept is not much different from a dead thing if we can't experience it somehow. So Love must be experienced, which means that it's connected to the reality itself (or the perception of it). It can't be subjective. It's not attraction, desire and affection, for those things also change, based of feelings, too unstable to build an identity, a house or a life on.

Love can't be a fantasy, a mere word, a social construct, because we all know it's real, and humans do chase after it, right? We long for the experience of Love. And we go for whatever sounds like it, we "learn to lick it from knifes" when we "were not fed it with spoons", we change and destroy who we are just to see a glimpse of it. Or what we thought it was a glimpse of it.

Truly, we might be able to experience Love in action, thoughts, feelings; essentially, in every realm of the human experience, in infinite ways. Love is present in grace, forgiveness, connection. In synchronicity. In honour. In the smile of someone "we love", in their eyes, their patience towards us, or our patience towards them — Love manifests itself. It could be a boop, a homemade meal, the shared grief, a tired dad after work, "loving" his kids. The sunshine striking the woods in that particular angle, the magical beauty of creation. Yet, those things are reflecting Love, they are not love themselves. But they do shine and call us to a higher place. Love is always calling us home.

With all that said:

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now, we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1Co13)

Love is not a thought, a feeling, or a subjective concept.

Love is someone.

#writers on tumblr #ivatalks #on love #about love #love #feelings #faith #spirituality #divine #eternal #agape #agape love #thoughts

[tears-that-heal]

God calls His children to become healers in His name. As He healed and saved us from our past selves through His Unwavering Love. We’re assigned the task to share His Love with others by means of genuine kindness and understanding. Be Brave & Be Kind in Jesus name. 🥰

#love #jesuslovesyou #jesuslovesme #jesus christ #christianity #trust god #trusting god #first loved me #first love #healers #through Jesus #god’s children #christians #calling #assignment #spiritual growth #spiritual maturity #share gods love #unwavering love #agape love #god’s love #god is love #jesus the healer #genuinity #authentic #christian faith #faith #kindness #understanding #god gives me strength

[metamorphosis14]

#metamorphosis714 #blessed #faithful #jesus #faith #grace #overflow #abundance #favor #agape love #forgiveness #power

[hermited-mind-glimmers]

It's all Love, babes.

You and me and the spaces in between, I wonder and think on the musings of humanity. Of love and hatred and war and unconditionality.

On why's and how's and who's.

On how we can ALL find ourselves, choose to grow, to be more. How we can learn to be grateful to those biggest of monsters that we believe are against us. Of how truly, the only way out is through.

I think on how facing my fears, accepting my darkest of parts, down to the capacity to wish severe harm on those who have done myself and my loved ones wrong (spoiler: I still wish on them nothing but healing and growth, because I've seen the brightness inside them and I know they can find it too)

Anyways. I love you. I hope you're having an amazing day, that you hear a song that speaks to your heart, that you take the next obstacle as an opportunity to release and become ever stronger than before. I hope we all wake up to the knowledge that we're all part of the same family, that we are all in this together at the end of the day, that we learn to love more unconditionally and True-ly.

You've got this, dear one. Keep going. You are loved and lovely all in the same.

#rambles #on love #unconditional #agape love #agape #non judgemental #accepting #warm #deep thoughts #evolution