Legally Rambling (10/18/2009) Sitting out under a beautiful sky tonight, and like most modern astronomers - I’m cheating by using a Starry Night program to assist with my view of God’s canvas – what a beautiful picture – Jupiter in Capricornus toward the South, the kids asleep – the house quiet. Some live John Mayer on my iphone. A great Sunday night!
Since its Sunday night, I thought I would take a break, bring up the house lights and bring out the stool (proverbially speaking) and well just ramble under God’s canvas.
Now when most folks hit forty (even though it’s the new twenty), you start to question a lot of things. If you are a guy you kinda look at each passing Porsche with greater interest. If you are not married you wonder if you ever will. If you are divorced you wonder if you will marry again. If you have never found true love - well you wonder if - the “one” is still out there. Like Mayer I’m still looking for the “one” – yes the “I’ve got your back kinda love” according to Mayer. As Mayer states “it’s the last thing I have to check out before I checkout!” I agree. But for a guy should the forties essentially just boil down to a Viagra or Rogaine or both – question? (OK so I knew the title would suck you in!) I’m still a romantic at heart and I do believe that love is the most powerful thing in the world, but I think not. I think it involves a much more important question.
An interesting note is that one of the greatest legal traps in the history of the world is found in the book of Matthew and involves love. It begins when an expert in religious law tries to trap Jesus with this question – “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, “'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40. So legally speaking, based upon a strict reading of religious law - it appears that all love should begin with a love of the Lord your God.
I have been asking this question on a personal level lately, but how is your walk? .............Ramble On!
Since its Sunday night, I thought I would take a break, bring up the house lights and bring out the stool (proverbially speaking) and well just ramble under God’s canvas.
Now when most folks hit forty (even though it’s the new twenty), you start to question a lot of things. If you are a guy you kinda look at each passing Porsche with greater interest. If you are not married you wonder if you ever will. If you are divorced you wonder if you will marry again. If you have never found true love - well you wonder if - the “one” is still out there. Like Mayer I’m still looking for the “one” – yes the “I’ve got your back kinda love” according to Mayer. As Mayer states “it’s the last thing I have to check out before I checkout!” I agree. But for a guy should the forties essentially just boil down to a Viagra or Rogaine or both – question? (OK so I knew the title would suck you in!) I’m still a romantic at heart and I do believe that love is the most powerful thing in the world, but I think not. I think it involves a much more important question.
An interesting note is that one of the greatest legal traps in the history of the world is found in the book of Matthew and involves love. It begins when an expert in religious law tries to trap Jesus with this question – “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, “'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40. So legally speaking, based upon a strict reading of religious law - it appears that all love should begin with a love of the Lord your God.
I have been asking this question on a personal level lately, but how is your walk? .............Ramble On!
No comment on the Viagra!
ReplyDeleteHowever, I definitely agree with love starting with love of God. My boyfriend and I are both very spiritual and, while in Iraq, his commanding officer asked why he loved me and one of the first things he said was, "well, she loves God." That speaks volumes!