I know this is a little late for the Eastern Time Zone readers, but it’s just after 6 in LA. Long day yesterday followed by a great dinner with 70 or so of my “closest friends”–other media representatives and managers and customers of Emerson Process Management. (Oh, and great to see one of my readers from Brazil this week.)
I was contemplating how to approach the first of the Spiritual fruit in Paul’s list–love. One discussion last night was on how sexually aggressive high school girls have become. And how so often high school boys are just not equipped for the expectations of those girls. And how it’s “just sex” primarily into oral sex, which is hardly benefits the girl any.
Christians have almost always liked to mock current culture (whenever that current might have been). But it is true that for maybe 40 years books, movies and TV shows have concentrated on sex and sexual images with few stories of intimacy along with it. In fact there was a long article about this topic in a recent issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
Sort of makes you wonder. What if so many in a generation don’t experience that falling in love feeling? And the feeling of loss when it’s over? And finding the feeling again at a deeper level as you mature.
In English, we only have one word. The Greeks in the New Testament time had at least three. We are stuck in Eros. How about Agape?
How can we teach our youth about love at a deeper, more committed level, than only sex. By example? Actually, often it’s not just youth. How many people as old as in their 50s still need that lesson?
Perhaps a life of pursuing Spiritual Practices helps.
Faith Venture 
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