Love and Worship
Sep. 26th, 2006 01:43 amSo, this will not seem terribly significant to many of you, I'm sure, but it's something I've wrestled with, so it counts as a kind of epiphany to finally put a finger on it this way:
Worship is not an expression of subservience. Worship is an expression of Love. More to the point, Worship is any expression of love.
It happens that Service is a major category for expressions of Love. It happens that Gifts are as well. These seem to be the two most commonly cited forms of Worship. But Verbal Affirmation, Physical Affection, and Time Spent are all expressions of love as well. And to me, a Desire to Know is the essence of Love itself - so anything that qualifies as expressing a desire to get to know me better registers as an expression of love.
Love Languages == Forms of Worship.
( Rambling on about an interesting result of this thought )
--Ember--
Worship is not an expression of subservience. Worship is an expression of Love. More to the point, Worship is any expression of love.
It happens that Service is a major category for expressions of Love. It happens that Gifts are as well. These seem to be the two most commonly cited forms of Worship. But Verbal Affirmation, Physical Affection, and Time Spent are all expressions of love as well. And to me, a Desire to Know is the essence of Love itself - so anything that qualifies as expressing a desire to get to know me better registers as an expression of love.
Love Languages == Forms of Worship.
( Rambling on about an interesting result of this thought )
--Ember--