What is love?

[Rhoni]

Just forget it...

[Cindy]

I love you from afar. In that I mean, I care how you feel, how you are treated by others, worry about you. I lift you up to Jesus almost everyday, pray for you, cry for you when I think you are hurting, want to share your burdens, and I don't really know why as I have never met you. I have tears in my eyes now. I rejoice with you when something great happens for you. I believe you have a deep love for God and His people.

[Rhoni]

I love you from afar. In that I mean, I care how you feel, how you are treated by others, worry about you. I lift you up to Jesus almost everyday, pray for you, cry for you when I think you are hurting, want to share your burdens, and I don't really know why as I have never met you. I have tears in my eyes now. I rejoice with you when something great happens for you. I believe you have a deep love for God and His people.

Thank-you.

Blessings, Rhoni

[bkstokes]

What is love .... baby don't hurt me .. baby don't hurt me no more (a song ) Just a jk conservatives don't get offended.

[RandyWayne]

What is love .... baby don't hurt me .. baby don't hurt me no more (a song ) Just a jk conservatives don't get offended.

http://www.hboasia.com/images/posters/378x195/a_night_at_the_roxbury.jpg

[Joie]

A few quotations from the "World" of love!

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." - unknown


"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken



"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes



"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous



"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud

"Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks


"In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

[LadyChocolate]

For a little bit of humor!

Conversation with young sweet Suzzy, and Mrs.Sally

Suzzy: Sally, do you know what love is?
Sally: Yes, Suzzy I do.

Suzzy: Do you really know what love is?
Sally: Yes, I really do

Suzzy: I want to know what love is. Will you tell me, Sally?
Sally: Oh Suzzy, love is......cooking, and cleaning. Feeding babies, washing clothes!

[Cindy]

What is love .... baby don't hurt me .. baby don't hurt me no more (a song ) Just a jk conservatives don't get offended.

:toofunny

That there's the blues son........:tissue


:toofunny

[rgcraig]

Just forget it...

okay

[stmatthew]

I think Rhoni is feeling unloved right now.

[Scott Hutchinson]

Love is caring about someone so much that you want to be with them all of the time,and you really don't see their faults.

[Scott Hutchinson]

Talk about songs,there was one called love is just a four letter word by Joan Baez.
The J.Geils band had one out called Love Stinks.
Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons did love hurts.

[rgcraig]

http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com/showthread.php?t=14084

Were you looking for this one?

[Rhoni]

http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com/showthread.php?t=14084

Were you looking for this one?

LOL..Gotta LOVE that song:toofunny

[rgcraig]

LOL..Gotta LOVE that song:toofunny

What song?

That's a link to your other thread "What Is Love?"

[Rhoni]

What song?

That's a link to your other thread "What Is Love?"


I was thinking about the song Bro. Scott was reminding us of...LOL. So I have 'love' on my mind quite a bit?:happydance

I promise...I am losing my mind.:girlytantrum

[Rhoni]

Love is more than emotions, and it is much more than a good feeling. But our society has taken what God has said about love, sex and intimacy and changed it into simply emotions and feelings. God describes love in great detail in the Bible, especially in the Book of First Corinthians, chapter 13. So that you catch the full weight of God's definition of love, let me present verses four through seven (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=KJV&passage=1+Corinthians+13%3A4-7)) to you this way. How much would it meet your needs if a person loved you as God says we should be loved:

if this person responded to you with patience, kindness, and was not envious of you?
if this person was not boastful or prideful?
how about if this person wasn't rude toward you or self-seeking or easily angered?
what if this person didn't keep a record of your wrongs?
how about if they refused to be deceitful, but always were truthful with you?
what if this person protected you, trusted you, always hoped for your good, and persevered through conflicts with you?
This is how God defines the love He wants us to experience in relationships. You'll notice that this kind of love is "other-person" focused. It is giving, rather than self-seeking. And there's the problem. Who can live up to this?
For us to experience this kind of love in relationships we need to first experience God's love for us. You can't consistently demonstrate this kind of love toward someone if you've never experienced being loved in this way. God, who knows you, who knows everything about you, loves you perfectly.
God tells us through the ancient prophet, Jeremiah, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; and I have drawn you unto Myself" (Jeremiah 31:3 (http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=KJV&passage=Jeremiah+31%3A3)). So God's love for you is never going to change.
God loved us so much that He allowed for Jesus Christ to be crucified (an ancient form of execution) for our sins so that we might be made clean. We read in the Bible, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16 (http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=KJV&passage=John+3%3A16)). When we turn to God and accept His forgiveness, then we begin to experience His love.
God tells us, "If we confess our sin He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9 (http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=KJV&passage=1+John+1%3A9)). Not only does God forgive our sins, but He forgets them and cleanses us.
God continues to love us no matter what. Often, relationships end when something in them is altered, such as a damaging accident or the loss of financial position. But God's love is not based on our physical appearance or who or what we are.
As you can see, God's view of love is totally different from what society tells us love is. Can you imagine a relationship with this kind of love? God simply tells us that His forgiveness and love is ours for the asking. It is His gift to us. But if we refuse the gift, we are the ones who cut ourselves off from finding true fulfillment, true intimacy and true purpose in life.
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[Rico]

I promise...I am losing my mind.:girlytantrum


We can tell. :D

[SOUNWORTHY]

When I was teaching I asked a little second grader "What is Love"( it was valentines day and she had a red heart pinned to her sweater) Much to my surprise she quoted a couple verses from 1 Cor.13

I like Scott's definition:Love is caring about someone so much that you want to be with them all of the time,and you really don't see their faults.

It is love when at 73 she still looks like the 19 year old you married her 53 years earlier.

Love is knowing when you meet the one God met for you,as happened to me a little over a year ago. She is now my wife of seven months!!

[rgcraig]

Love is an action verb!

[H2H]

Re: What is love?
I'll take a stab at this...

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z116/luckysweep/lipsREX2801_468x315.jpg

[H2H]

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z116/luckysweep/H2H.jpg

[Cindy]

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z116/luckysweep/H2H.jpg

Hooker red.

[Rhoni]

Not hairspray again:)

[rgcraig]

Re: What is love?
I'll take a stab at this...

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z116/luckysweep/lipsREX2801_468x315.jpg

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z116/luckysweep/H2H.jpg

Calm down H2H!!!!! :toofunny

[Joie]

When I was teaching I asked a little second grader "What is Love"( it was valentines day and she had a red heart pinned to her sweater) Much to my surprise she quoted a couple verses from 1 Cor.13

I like Scott's definition:Love is caring about someone so much that you want to be with them all of the time,and you really don't see their faults.

It is love when at 73 she still looks like the 19 year old you married her 53 years earlier.

Love is knowing when you meet the one God met for you,as happened to me a little over a year ago. She is now my wife of seven months!!
May God bless you with many years of love and happiness. :)

Now about that 53 years down the road, it will take God's love and your imagination or botox and a little help to look somewhat the same after those 53 years. :)

[Cindy]

May God bless you with many years of love and happiness. :)

Now about that 53 years down the road, it will take God's love and your imagination or botox and a little help to look somewhat the same after those 53 years. :)

:bliss :bliss :happydance :happydance

[SOUNWORTHY]

May God bless you with many years of love and happiness. :)

Now about that 53 years down the road, it will take God's love and your imagination or botox and a little help to look somewhat the same after those 53 years. :)

No, it doesn't take imagination. I speak fom experience. I lost my my wife of 53 years and to me she was still the same19 year old ; just as beautiful if not more so than in 1953. I still got the same thrill anytime she walked into the room as I did then.

Now God has allowed another wonderful lady to come into my life, to love ,to cherish and share my life with.:heart

[SDG]

I do know that there is no greater love than laying down one's life for a friend.

[Glenda B]

I do know that there is no greater love than laying down one's life for a friend.

how can people do this for a mere friend when they will not even do it for a spouse? The Bible also says we two are one, and whatsoever God has joined together, let no man put assunder, yet in this society in which we live today, so many couples are divorcing their spouses, and going right on preaching the word of God as if they are still qualified, but according to scripture, they are not. We are seeing to much of this in the apostolic churches. How is it possible to explain what 'love' is when we are guilty of breaking up a home and family? If we are right with God, working to please him in all things, is divorce an option? Because 'in the beginning; it was not so, except for the hardening of men's hearts. This is just going through my mind so I though I'd ask, and it is not posted in the way that I am feeling it. I hope it's understandable.

[DividedThigh]

it makes you feel all funny, lol

[SDG]

how can people do this for a mere friend when they will not even do it for a spouse? The Bible also says we two are one, and whatsoever God has joined together, let no man put assunder, yet in this society in which we live today, so many couples are divorcing their spouses, and going right on preaching the word of God as if they are still qualified, but according to scripture, they are not. We are seeing to much of this in the apostolic churches. How is it possible to explain what 'love' is when we are guilty of breaking up a home and family? If we are right with God, working to please him in all things, is divorce an option? Because 'in the beginning; it was not so, except for the hardening of men's hearts. This is just going through my mind so I though I'd ask, and it is not posted in the way that I am feeling it. I hope it's understandable.

Not sure where you are going w/ this (or maybe I do) ... but I'll bite.

Are you saying one cannot opine on the question in this thread if one is divorced?

Was GT Haywood, an noted Apostolic pioneer and other men of God ...even in the WPF ... no longer qualified or capable of being preachers of the Word because of a divorce ... let try alone explain what love is?

Did Paul get it wrong when he gave consent by stating they are no longer bound to those whose spouses leave?

Are Apostolic churches immune to the consequences of sin in our lives and society?

[AmericanAngel]

What is love .... baby don't hurt me .. baby don't hurt me no more (a song ) Just a jk conservatives don't get offended.
I was just going to post the same thing!!! LOL
Every time I read this topic, I hear that song.......:gaga

[DividedThigh]

I was just going to post the same thing!!! LOL
Every time I read this topic, I hear that song.......:gaga

i had to be careful rigth away that head bobbin thing hurts my neck, lol,dt

[tstew]

Love is action...just like faith.

[Falla39]

Many may be too young to remember the once popular song,
sung at many weddings years ago.

"Love Is A Many Spendored Thing"

Love is a many splendored thing
It's the April rose
That only grows in the early spring
Love is nature's way of giving
A reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king

Once on a high and windy hill
In the morning mist
Two lovers kissed
And the world stood still
Then your fingers touched
My silent heart and taught it how to sing
Yes, true love's
A many splendored thing.

This song was quite popular years ago when we were both
young and in love. We didn't really know what "true" love was.

To me true love is, after all the years of growing together
with God and each other; after all the struggle of work, raising
a family, and after all the good times, and the sad times, and
the hard times; To be able to stand together, after almost a
half century, and to be willing to "renew" your vows. To say to
each other, "we really didn't know what the vows meant back
then, we were young and "in love" and we really didn't care".
We just wanted to be together! But today, as we renew our
vows, knowing full well what we are doing and saying. To say,
"I am willing to affirm my love for you as a mature adult, and
to tell you, I would do it again with you, my love, my spouse".

Forgive me if I sound a bit too sentimental today. July 11 will
be our 49th and then next year, our 50th, should the Lord allow
us both to live until then. It has not always been easy, and it
has not all been "a bed of roses", but we have had the love of
God and enough love for each other to make the journey.

And I will tell you, "I Wouldn't Take Nothin For My Journey Now".

My journey with JESUS and my journey with my sweetheart.

Sentimentally me,

Falla39

[DividedThigh]

thanks sis falla, that is so cool, dt

[Cindy]

i had to be careful rigth away that head bobbin thing hurts my neck, lol,dt

My youngest always wants to do this in the car, and wants me to join her.

[DividedThigh]

My youngest always wants to do this in the car, and wants me to join her.

thats funny sis, my kids do that too, hurts my neck though, lol want a pepsi now

[AmericanAngel]

thats funny sis, my kids do that too, hurts my neck though, lol want a pepsi now


Ok!!!...can't take it anymore!!!!! :reaction
Ya'll twist my arm...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SJEVxfWpm7c

[SOUNWORTHY]

how can people do this for a mere friend when they will not even do it for a spouse? The Bible also says we two are one, and whatsoever God has joined together, let no man put assunder, yet in this society in which we live today, so many couples are divorcing their spouses, and going right on preaching the word of God as if they are still qualified, but according to scripture, they are not. We are seeing to much of this in the apostolic churches. How is it possible to explain what 'love' is when we are guilty of breaking up a home and family? If we are right with God, working to please him in all things, is divorce an option? Because 'in the beginning; it was not so, except for the hardening of men's hearts. This is just going through my mind so I though I'd ask, and it is not posted in the way that I am feeling it. I hope it's understandable.

You come through Loud and clear and I agree 1,000%!!! If they divorce and remarry without biblical reasons they should not preach again.

[OP_Carl]

What is love?

If I had only one nightcrawler left, I'd give you half - that's love!

[rgcraig]

If I had only one nightcrawler left, I'd give you half - that's love!

That's it!!!

I love nightcrawlers and it would be hard for me to share with just anyone!

[SOUNWORTHY]

Many may be too young to remember the once popular song,


Forgive me if I sound a bit too sentimental today. July 11 will
be our 49th and then next year, our 50th, should the Lord allow
us both to live until then. It has not always been easy, and it
has not all been "a bed of roses", but we have had the love of
God and enough love for each other to make the journey.

And I will tell you, "I Wouldn't Take Nothin For My Journey Now".

My journey with JESUS and my journey with my sweetheart.

Sentimentally me,

Falla39

Congratulations to both of you!!!

[Falla39]

Congratulations to both of you!!!

Thank you so much!


Blessings,

Falla39

[gthaywood1880]

Bishop Garfield Thomas Haywood (July 15,1880-April 12,1931) was married only once to Ida Haywood form February 11,1902 until his death.