Thought for 22nd Sept 2005

      The TfT  is "A different prespective on Love" its about love as a *choice*  as a more grander thing than just a relation between two people or family. Its about love for Humanity, Love for the poor and suffering........................and about how THIS LOVE is so wonderful and so very difficult.

        Let me ask u a question ........Do u think love promotes Justice?.............!!!! NO???.well read on .....................!!!!!YES ???? Think how before u read on............

        "Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. Love creates righteousness, or justice, here on earth. To make love is to make justice. As advocates and activists for justice know, loving involves struggle, resistance, risk. People working today on behalf of women, blacks, lesbians and gay men, the aging, the poor in this country and elsewhere know that making justice is not a warm, fuzzy experience. I think also that sexual lovers and good friends know that the most compelling relationships demand hard work, patience, and a willingness to endure tensions and anxiety in creating mutually empowering bonds.

        For this reason loving involves commitment. We are not automatic lovers of self, others, world, or God. Love does not just happen. We are not love machines, puppets on the strings of a deity called "love." Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. Love is a conversion to humanity -- a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life, rather than as an alien in the world or as a deity above the world, aloof and apart from human flesh.

--Carter Heyward in "Passion for Justice"
PS: If u have a collection of quotes , sayings , proverbs.........u can contribute to TfT's to............this way i will also get to know what u all are interested in doing . According to ideas/feedback received till now .......................probably we can have some days where we just put what other people have as their Favourite Quotes.........All and any ideas are welcome