http://www.thispile.com/archives/flourishing-love One Woman, Many Piles, Much Grace. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:05:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.thispile.com/archives/flourishing-love#comment-138290 The Pile I’m Standing In » Blog Archive » selfless love Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:38:23 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/archives/flourishing-love#comment-138290 [...] In addition to Philippians 1:9, since this realization I’ve been meditating on this passage: It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition (jealousy, perhaps?); all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. [...] [...] In addition to Philippians 1:9, since this realization I’ve been meditating on this passage: It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition (jealousy, perhaps?); all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. [...]

]]> http://www.thispile.com/archives/flourishing-love#comment-133039 Dacia Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:30:40 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/archives/flourishing-love#comment-133039 lovely, Jen. thanks for this. I hear you about the negativity, but hope! such a lovely verse all by itself like that. not sure I've ever read it by its lonesome. very powerful. :) lovely, Jen. thanks for this. I hear you about the negativity, but hope! such a lovely verse all by itself like that. not sure I’ve ever read it by its lonesome. very powerful.

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