26-06-2012, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Celeste
MRDazzle, that is a good way to put it. Here are a few ideas that relate to caring, as I've been thinking about this subject lately. I think caring is what is often left (if you're lucky) after the love is gone from a committed relationship. Especially if the relationship ended horribly. Caring is what you can feel generally about a lot of different people. You may even care about the homeless man on the street. Caring is, I love you, but I am not in love with you. I think caring can go under Agape, one of the purest loves, but not the love between two partners.
I was mulling over this in my mind lately. I am whole the way I am, so if Love doesn't come my way again, if I don't have someone to join, marry with, it's ok to stay alone and whole. I can still do God's work, married or alone (which, by the way, the most perfect love, between soul mates, is the Love to serve others.
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A beautiful response...in both parts 
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and become themselves despite all opposition.
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