The Problem With Love
By DONALD DeMARCO Love is the will to promote the good in another. Because love operates on the plane of reality, it needs the truth of the other in order to do its work effectively. Love is not blind; its guiding light is the truth about the one who is loved. “Love is not blind,” as G.K. Chesterton reminds us, “that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”Love binds one person to another in a way that is intended to benefit the other. Love has little meaning as an abstraction floating in isolation. Therefore, love is ineffective as long as it is unaccompanied by truth. This…Continue Reading