Yes, but actually no. Only a counterfeit mimicry of love would maintain a ledger or scale to measure the cost of one’s sacrifice. This notion of love amounts to nothing more than mercantile sentimentality. Love scorns the notion of sacrifice for love finds its ultimate expression and fulfillment not in how much it can outgive but in how much it can increase and intensify the desires of the beloved.
Song of Songs 8:6-7
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
As a seal upon your arm;
For love is as strong as death,
Jealously as cruel as the grave;
Its flames are flames of fire,
A most vehement flame.Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor can the floods drown it.
If a man would give for love
All the wealth of his house,
It would be utterly despised.
February 23, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I am impressed that you used mimicry and mercantile in one paragraph. I just like those words. Good stuff, quirky.
February 23, 2007 at 10:09 pm
WOW! I love Sarah Sun Kim!
So excited that you and Molly are blogging!
Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog!
February 25, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Mosack: “You will see greater things than these.” (and no, I’m not equating myself to the Messiah in John 1:50)
Matt: I love Sarah Sun Kim, too! I’m glad we agree (tongue-in-cheek)
March 2, 2007 at 6:49 pm
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