Thursday, 13 March 2008

Devotion 33 - tough love

So it seems that Thomas knew about "tough love" more than 500 years ago... He says that love (charity) sometimes acts, and sometimes it doesn't.

The key according to today's devotion is a person's intention. Also a few hundred years before modern psychology, Thomas is able to identify the troubling role of the ego ("...a persons own inclination...") in determining and shaping our attitides and actions.

I agree that loving is not only acting and giving all the time. Love demands that we want what is best for the other...

sometimes that isn't another helping!

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