I was listening to Rob Morris, the president and founder of Love146 on a youtube video titled "love thoughts." I thought this was an interesting title for a video so as i sat there, watching him and listening to his words, the last few words really grabbed my attention and kind of slapped me a little bit. His last words on the videoblog were "can we be extremists for love?" at the time I wasn't even sure what that little blurb means but as i start to think about it more and more, i'm appalled that i even THOUGHT of it as a little blurb at all. Rather, it is an appropriate, urgent, and necessary action above all else. Used in any context, an extremist.. ok see dictionary.com tells me an extremist is someone who goes to the extremes. thank you. now check this out.. what does extreme mean? well we got a couple of definitions for you (we = me and dictionary.com) :
1. Of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average
2. Exceeding the bounds of moderation
3. Farthest, utmost, or very far in any direction
4. Going to the utmost or very great lengths in action, habit, opinion, etc.
How cool is that?? Think of that in terms of love, and think of love as an action. to Love so strong that is exceeds the bounds of moderation!! To Love so much that it is far removed from the ordinary character of a person. To love so deep that it is as far as the east is from the west! To love so much that you would give yourself for the person, the cause, the child, the one who needs it. OK, i know it seems a bit abstract but WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE if we redefined how important it is to love? WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE if we loved PeOpLe as much as we loved our money, our education, our family, our blackberries.. ? WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE if we became extremists for love, in love, and with love?
No comments:
Post a Comment