As the famous song lyric goes, "Love is a many-splendored thing."
Love, too, is a deep thread that winds through many religions and can be realized in different ways, even within the same faith.
As Valentine's Day approaches, we are exploring the various aspects of love in Judaism and different forms of Christianity, and what it means to love one another.
"Love is one of those natural emotions that has passion, relationship, joy," said Reg Cox, senior minister at Lakewood Church of Christ. "It affects all those things at the same time, and it's what makes life life."
Love --; whether it's friendly, familial or spiritual --; takes shape through actions. Those actions, such as having compassion for one another, being thankful, being rooted in Scripture and serving the community, our sources said, are representative of one's love for God.
At the Colorado Horeb Mar Thoma Church in Northglenn, a Christian church founded in India, the belief in love remains familiar.
"We teach to love one another, love your neighbor and love yourself," said Sara Vargrese, a church-goer and wife of the worship leader. Vargrese added that Horeb Mar Thoma members show that love through different mission activities.
"We believe in God's unconditional love for us, and we try, as a church, to embody that unconditional love of God," said Tezenlo Thong at Simpson United Methodist Church in Arvada. "For us, that means whatever we can do to show love, in whatever small ways we can ... Love is love at any time and anywhere."
from Lakewood Sentinel - Latest Stories http://lakewoodsentinel.comhttp://goldentranscript.net/stories/Whats-love-got-to-do-with-it,206306?branding=15
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