I can't believe I'm copping to this.
Tuesday May 22, 2007
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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For the Christian, love is a verb. It is something we do, not just something we feel. This makes it possible to love our enemies. To the husband on Oprah, I would tell him to act in a loving way towards his spouse and the feelings would probably follow. All of us, who are married, go through periods when we don t feel like loving our spouses, but if we continue to act in a loving way, things often will get better.
Isn't that the secret of long marriages that were arranged, or where the husband and wife didn't know each other very well when they got married? From everything I've read about it -- and, as I've admitted above, I have no personal experience in this area -- people *choose* to make it work and learn, over time, to love one another.
PS to Osvaldo: The guilty pleasure one has in watching *The Bachelor* is, perhaps, the same that one has in viewing a car wreck. It's a voyeuristic fascination with details combined with a feeling of relief that is isn't happening to you!
But, yes, I have to admit that after watching a couple of episodes I feel as if I have to take a shower to wash off the "ecch!" But knowing that these people *chose* to be a part of this makes me feel a bit less guilty.
David J. White said, "People were "older" at a younger age than they are now, and I think the more predictable nature of the economy was part of the reason." I agree, but I suspect another reason younger people were "older" then is that they didn't have the generation above them being told that they were the greatest, most marvelous, most wonderful, most enlightened group of people ever to grace the earth; and when *their* elders reached the age of sixty or sixty-five they started to slow down and enjoy life a little, not demand that the whole world continually readjust to the ridiculous "sixty is the new thirty!" paradigm being shoved down our throats everywhere we turn. Congratulations to your parents, btw!
OMG. I can't believe you watch this show. You are in my prayers.
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