Posted on 12/15/2014 11:15:31 PM PST by CharlesOConnell
But do they? Its not so much, "are they capable of love", as, "do they know what love is"?
It's parallel to "what is freedom"? The ability to do whatever you want? Or the ability to do what is right?
Love is preferring the good of the other for the other's sake.
It can be explained to a five-year-old, as simply as Rapunzel and Flynn Rider's mutual, self-sacrificial love.
(Rapunzel is willing to remain the false-mother's slave, to save Flynn Rider's life. Flynn is willing to die so that Rapunzel can become free. Self-sacrificial love that perfects their romance into True Love: "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends".)
But what about "love" for one's children? Successfully passing the test should be, that we want better for our children than ourselves.
What if we don't even examine ourselves, whether we really want that for our children?
How can we want better for our children, if we aren't willing to live better ourselves?
The real marker should be, that when we have our first children, we stop all our youthful foolishness and start to live for them.
For those of us gifted with faith, the change is marked by our regularly attending church.
youtube.com/watch?v=wGFa-hKr6Q8&feature=youtu.be
Kids are awesome but they are not the most important part of the family structure. Mom and Dad are paramount. The two are one flesh. Kids come from that but aren’t more important than where they came from. Now parents will sacrifice for their kids but consider what happens to the rest of the family if one parent is gone. It’s awful to lose a child early but it’s really a major blow to the entire family when there’s no mom or dad.
And don’t say remarriage is the answer. You can’t just swap in a mom or dad like a piece of meat. It don’t work that way in the real world.
and children are not royalty either.
if the children are royalty, then by definition the parents have to be royalty.
and i don’t want to go down that road.
in our country we have no royalty. if they want that crap go back to africa or europe.
‘Honor thy parents’ is a command from God, somehow it has become parents become the childrens servants. Very backward.
Libtards have pushed the idea of “what about the children/do it for the chlidren” and “if just one child is saved” mantra crap.
... with three words, "I love you" .
“Despite what popular culture claims, love isn’t just a bundle of sentiments. Love is, rather, the willingness to endure all sorts of difficulty, hardship, tedium, disappointments, and setbacks for the sake of someone else’s happiness and welfare. Love is another word for sacrifice and responsibility. Love is the greatest thing in life. In many ways, love is life.” - James B. Stenson, “To Be a Man ”
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