Agape

raised me to love my neighbor as myself, and to treat others the way that I want to be treated. I just assumed that this goes for everyone, including those of other races. My opinion of race is based on love. And not the love that I can give, but the agape love that Jesus provides. The love that Jesus died to show. I do not peg African Americans as criminals, and I don’t think of them in a different way than I do my white brother and sisters. This is derived from my upbringing and lack of…

I bolted straight up, gasping for breath. I clutched my head in my hands as I rested my elbows on my propped up knees. I closed my eyes and took some deep breaths. After a few inhales, I settled down and looked around, blurry eyed. I was still in my little brother’s hospital room, which was dimly lit with moon light. I looked over to the chair on my left. My boyfriend, Matt, was slouched in a sitting position with his head hanging precariously over his left shoulder. He was asleep and partly…

the hugely successful Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde failed dismally to receive the same accolades. Critics such as Michal Dequina of the Movie Report criticized Julia Roberts’ (Mary Reilly) “blank and mouth agape” acting whilst Stanley Kauffmann of the New York Times simple stated “the story lacks purpose”. It can be inferred from reactions such as these that the film was never going to universally appeal to everyone due to the physical representations…

It has been almost one month since that incident with Michael and his wife. It took about three weeks for me to even fill comfortable sleeping in my own home. I became so jumpy and paranoid getting in and out my car until I just had to tell myself, enough is enough. I was no longer going to let some women make me afraid to live in my own home. It’s not like Michael had a key or anything. I stop by the health food store today and picked up some miso paste, portabella mushrooms, spring onions,…

[1a] Is not believing what we know irrational, and is believing what we do not know irresponsible? [1b] The problem is that the harmony of humankind under God is lost because in Western societies, understanding of knowledge is set apart from or opposite to faith, and this configuration has led to the global acceptance of scientific knowledge instead of the knowledge of Christ as the truth of reality. [1c] Harmony will be regained by first knowing the reality of God and His presence in human…

It gets to be too much for Lance around the same time Keith is pretty much considering throwing himself out of an airlock. He's sitting in the control room, totally alone, at the Altean equivalent of four in morning when Lance finds him. He'd been tracing constellations absent-mindedly into the crystalline tiles beneath his fingertips, all eighty-eight of them, and he's just about to connect the last star of the Pleiades sleepily with grazed, stained-glass knuckles when the screech echoes…

standing at attention, and she continued. “Are Servants allowed their own Mate?” Shadow didn’t appear sad when he confided his needs. “No, we are not similar to the Vampires or the humans for that matter; we don’t have the same needs. We need an agape love from the one that mate with our Master. Not all Servants are as lucky as I.” He gave her a smile that was awfully sweet she wanted to pinch his cheeks, however she didn’t want to embarrass him. Shadow continued. “As I explained earlier, a…

The realization that I was completely alone was not a sudden one. It came over me in an excruciatingly slow way. The idea at this point is so ingrained in me, I cannot imagine a time when it was not evident. I live in a world of darkness, unpenetrated by even the bravest of souls. I stare at the group of people around me. I don 't know them, they don 't know me. "Hey, what 's up?" I duck my head down as my cheeks redden. In an instant I decide that I will pretend to have not heard. The…

The answer is in the Bible, God’s word. Jeremiah 31.3: I have loved you with an everlasting love. God loves you, and He loves you with a agape love. There is no human love comparable to divine love. God loves you & wants to forgive you & have fellowship with you. Many of us do not know God’s love. If you knew his love, your life will be changed. When man sinned what did God do? He did not hate mankind because of their sin. Though God is holy & without sin & hates sin but he loves a sinner.…

height, piercings, and hobbies. Seifer never really cared about any of that because he knew with his charm that he could get anyone to do whatever he wanted. His eyes glanced passed some of the profiles until one completely shocked him. He froze, mouth agape, staring at the picture and name below him. Zell Dincht. 'What the hell is he doing in a place like this?' he thought. Practically running up to the counter he startled the secretary. "Him! How much is he?! I want to buy him?!" Asking louder…