{"id":2616,"date":"2011-05-30T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2015-08-05T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T01:24:24","slug":"a-new-definition-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/a-new-definition-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A new definition of love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">A short post today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A while ago there was this girl who was&#8230;well, she was pretty amazing&#8230;I was kinda nuts about her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One evening I went to a Young Adult Diocesan event and was all all set to ask her out. Before I could speak to her that evening, the speaker got up and began his talk. During his presentation he gave a definition of <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;love&#8221;<\/em><\/span> that I had never heard before:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Love&#8230;.is seeking the good of &#8216;the other&#8217;, in preference to your own, even at the expense of your own happiness&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This conception of love hit me like a tonne of bricks.\u00a0Seeking the good of the other&#8230;<em>even <\/em>at the expense of my own happiness&#8230;\u00a0Hearing that definition really\u00a0troubled me and caused me to slam on the breaks and reassess my motives with regards to this girl.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard many definitions of &#8220;love&#8221;, both in church and out in the world, yet no other has ever cut me to the core in the same way.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2620\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2620\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/love.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/love.jpg 508w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/love-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love Park, Philadelphia<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short post today&#8230; A while ago there was this girl who was&#8230;well, she was pretty amazing&#8230;I was kinda nuts about her&#8230; One evening I went to a Young Adult Diocesan event and was all all set to ask her out. Before I could speak to her that evening, the speaker got up and began his talk. During his presentation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2969,200],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-featured","tag-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58528,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/58528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}