Approximately 6 years ago I purchased the audiobook, The Four Loves by CS Lewis on iTunes. (it's an original recording so it's CS Lewis's voice) I tried listening to it while I went for walks but always zoned out or couldn't understand what he was saying. So it just sat there on my iPod for years. Recently, I tried listening to it again on one of my many car rides to Myrtle Beach. I've matured a lot and have grown a lot in these past 6 years and have to say I'm so glad I picked it up again. Maybe with what I know now I can connect to this book in ways that I couldn't 6 years ago. It is still hard to get through, just the way he talks/writes and it's always hard for me to listen to books on tape, period. He offers a critique of each of the four types of loves described in the bible. Storge which is affection. Phileo which is friendship. Eros is the "being in love" like we know it in a romantic relationship, not necessarily a lustful or sexual love. And lastly we have agape which is the most charitable form of love. Lewis believes this is the love that should be unconditional and the way God loves. It was an interesting book, I learned a lot. It challenged me in some ways and it was a nice expansion on the different types of relationships in my own life and how I view love.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
The Four Loves
Approximately 6 years ago I purchased the audiobook, The Four Loves by CS Lewis on iTunes. (it's an original recording so it's CS Lewis's voice) I tried listening to it while I went for walks but always zoned out or couldn't understand what he was saying. So it just sat there on my iPod for years. Recently, I tried listening to it again on one of my many car rides to Myrtle Beach. I've matured a lot and have grown a lot in these past 6 years and have to say I'm so glad I picked it up again. Maybe with what I know now I can connect to this book in ways that I couldn't 6 years ago. It is still hard to get through, just the way he talks/writes and it's always hard for me to listen to books on tape, period. He offers a critique of each of the four types of loves described in the bible. Storge which is affection. Phileo which is friendship. Eros is the "being in love" like we know it in a romantic relationship, not necessarily a lustful or sexual love. And lastly we have agape which is the most charitable form of love. Lewis believes this is the love that should be unconditional and the way God loves. It was an interesting book, I learned a lot. It challenged me in some ways and it was a nice expansion on the different types of relationships in my own life and how I view love.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Murder Mystery Junky
Now that school has started my brain has just been fried. Dealing with kids all day, when I come home I don't want to think all day. I just want to relax and read. So I've been defaulting to mystery books and beach-read books. I finished The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen on Monday night and picked up Twelfth Card by Jeffrey Deaver last night. (I had put it on hiatus). Don't get me wrong, they are both good books and well written. The Tess Gerritsen series that inspired the Rizzoli & Isles tv show is fantastic. Can't wait to read the last one! But they are "easy reads" compared to Middlemarch or Black Rednecks & White Liberals. I'm learning a lot more with these last two, but moving very slowly through them. I'm convinced I'll finish these and the bible by 2011.
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