Some thoughts in response to your question... (Main Forum)

by Oh Yet We Trust, Brisbane, Saturday, February 06, 2010, 04:41 (1198 days ago) @ Brian Coyne

Thanks Brian. There are some good points here. But please, I hope you didn't think that by love I meant anything other than the kind of love we have for each other, in our families, our brothers and sisters certainly not the puppy love or falling in love that you mention - I don't mean that at all though I know in some circles that is certainly the impression one gets. No, it's the love that says I want to be with you, I care about what you care about, I believe in what and who you are and your life gives my life meaning - that sort of love - but this is not devoid of emotion either. But, yes, the emotional can become too overbearing and unrealistic and sentimental and that is not the right way to go.

It's OK. There's just still a lot of stuff to work through and I suppose Vynette, you pressed a few of my old buttons - but I did ask for meat rather than baby food, didn't I. I suppose I was reacting in the same way Vynette, you reacted to the Jewish video - so much of what I believed in seemed to be being 'junked'.

But I know there is a great deal more to the stuff I've believed for so long; so many new and probably better, more mature ways of looking at it all. So I will keep looking and thinking and praying.

Stephen

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill