canpakes wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 4:50 pm
Some Schmo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:45 am
My wife has been making me meals for years now; she keeps me alive. That's pretty physical evidence of her love for me.
Of course, to me, love is action, not the associated feelings.
Your partner’s actions can absolutely be a manifestation of love … but intent can factor in on both sides of the exchange. : D
Still, this question prompts another, for you, Jersey Girl (and I still owe you an answer from a previous post; will have to find that).
What actions of love to you see - either from God or other external entities driven by God - as evidence that ‘God loves us’?
It took me a while to relocate this post of yours in the shuffle, cp.
Here is your question for me:
What actions of love to you see - either from God or other external entities driven by God - as evidence that ‘God loves us’?
I don't know what you mean by other external entities driven by God. Do you mean what we call natural forces? Things like hurricanes, wildfires, floods, tornadoes? Tell me more about what you mean.
Back to your question about what actions of love do I see from God as evidence that God loves us.
I would qualify what I have to say by specifying that these are actions of love that
I think I see from God as evidence that God loves us. While I could give you a one word (name) reply. I'll just share my thoughts with you in list form.
1. The earth for my home.
2. Supplying the earth with food to sustain me.
3. Hunger.
4. The stars in the Night Sky above me that I wonder at.
5. The ability to wonder, to imagine, to search, and to strive. To think inwardly and outside of myself.
6. Free will that allows me to choose and the knowledge that I might mess it up, and have many times over. My conscience.
7. The opportunity to try again.
8. The opportunity to face hardship or actual disaster, to struggle, to learn from it.
9. A chance to be who I am and love people.
10. The situations which have led me to learn to accept who I am even though I rarely ever show myself to others.
11. The chance to recognize things that are different or special about me, and how I can put them to use.
12. The encounters I have had with other people including my parents, extended family, the family I made myself, friends, and even the brief encounters I have had that impacted me or I hope, impacted them positively.
13. The opportunity to benefit from so many people in my life. People who did me wrong, people who forgot about me, people who were afflicted, the chance to understand them even when they caused pain. People who loved me and still love me.
14. The chance to even be born on which all of the above hangs.
15. Powerful personal experiences.
16. The God who allows me to change my mind or change course, like God changed his mind for humanity.
I think I'm out of reasons for the moment though if I put my mind to it I possibly could write a zillion ways I think I see evidence for God's love for me and for humankind in general.
If this was boring, don't blame me. You're the one who said you wanted to know how people think so there you go!