Love

I thought it was perfect that we talked about "Falling in Love" the day before Valentines Day. In our preparation for this class period we were supposed to define love. This was a lot harder to do than I thought it would be. There are so many different definitions you could have. I came up with a few.

-Willing to do anything for someone and giving up anything to make them happy under the proper circumstances
-Willing to give everything to see them happy
-Tender unconditional affection
-A warm blanket being wrapped around my body

Then we went over the 4 different greek words that all translate to love.

• Storge=the kind of love found in the affection between parents and their children.
• Philia= the kind of love that exsists between friends. (highest form of love to the greeks)
• Eros= we get eros from the word erotic and this is the love between a man and woman (it includes sexual love, but it is more than a desire for sex and is more than lust)
• Agape= love that is dependent of one's feelings for another.

Then we discussed what kind of love you should have when you get married and as we discussed this it became important that we have all 4 kinds of love between our spouses and ourselves.