Tag: love

• [random thoughts] Where Do You Hide Your Heart?

  

  Where do you hide your heart? The question always reminds me of Amy Grant’s 1984 track on her hit album Straight Ahead. Her song encouraged us to turn to God during times of distress. It got me thinking about why people do what they do, particularly during times of conflict or stress. Passion and drive,…

  dappled-things

  April 15, 2020

  culture, nonfiction, personal, quote, random writing, thought piece

  charism of virginity, desiring the kingdom, dubay, heart, james ka smith, jung, love, man and his symbols, passion, romantic theology, song of songs, spiritual love, unconscious

• [writing][poetry] Sonnet VI

  

  READ HERE Turning the pages of memory’s book,I recall those moments that could not last,Long shrouded within the fog of the past;I wonder: what would I find should I look?A word aptly spoken or careless thought?Time well-spent and valued or thrown away?Surrounded by love or abandoned one day?My heart well-guarded or easily bought?Then with a…

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  July 27, 2019

  literature, original fiction, personal

  love, memory, poetry, regret, sonnet

• [YT] “Love is a Mental Illness” (Watson)

  Gotta watch to the end.

  dappled-things

  November 4, 2018

  video

  adultery, commitment, culture, dating, divorce, love, lust, marriage, modern dating, romance, serial dating, sex, sex culture

• [posting][poetry] Sonnet I

  

  These chains of thought which bind my heart to thine (Yes, I am captive of your Siren’s heart) Hold bitter dreams of love ne’er to be mine And broken hopes of two lives kept apart. This slavery of soul, unbeknownst to you, Restricts my path and turns my eyes away From all that lies before…

  dappled-things

  March 30, 2018

  literature, original fiction, random writing

  inspiration, life, love, poetry, relationships, sonnet

• “Our desiring model – our romantic theology – has emphasized that we are creatures who love first and foremost. The most basic way that we intend the world is on the affective order of love. This love constitutes our fundamental and governing orientation to the world. As such, our love is always ultimately aimed at a telos, a picture of the good life that pulls us toward it, thus shaping our actions and behavior. This orientation is something that comes before thinking; thus we’ve described it as precognitive. It is more at work at the level of the adaptive unconsciousness or the “social imaginary”. Our love is aimed from the fulcrum of our desire – the habits that constitute our character, or core identity. And the way our love or desire gets aimed in specific directions is through practices that shape, mold, and direct our love.”

  -James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, 80.

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  March 24, 2018

  nonfiction, quote

  Christianity, cultural formation, culture, desire, ideas, love, prayer, relationships, social imaginary, society, worldview, worship