{"id":350,"date":"2011-01-05T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/i-have-no-idea\/"},"modified":"2011-01-05T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:35:00","slug":"i-have-no-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/i-have-no-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"I have no idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
\nLove. \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>I guess I have always <\/span>known about it.\u00a0<\/i><\/span>\n

Cradled in my mothers arms, she whispered it to me. And I sensed it as I was consoled by my father, telling me that the bully\u2019s words didn\u2019t matter. I heard it when Nana reminded me I was important to her.<\/span><\/span>
\ufeff\ufeff
And it might have pricked a tiny hole in heart as I watched J<\/span><\/span>ill ride by on her bicycle and I wondered what it would be like to talk to her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four fab singers told me it was all I needed.\u00a0I found\u00a0Solomon\u2019s song and read wide-eyed the tawdry, yet sacred account. The minister spoke of phileo, eros and agape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I had no idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>\ufeff
\ufeff<\/p>\n

\nI could sense it in others. Watching the couple at the\u00a0restaurant, laughing and then narrowing their eyes in resolute seriousness. She, throwing her hair back while he watched in wonder.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>It changed people. It made them happy. And crazy. <\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Photo by Lisa <\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I read the words scrawled in trees and watched it play out from the stage and big screen. It was a simple note on the old piano and a raging symphony all at once.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

In school I read about it, the stuff of poetry and sonnets. Lovers in dangerous times, heroes acted\u00a0heroically. Heroines swooned.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

But I had no idea.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, I would fight for love, kicking at the darkness until it bled daylight*. Leapfrogging suitors, splashing cologne on my tender skin and wooing the maiden. And when I found it, I swore I\u2019d never lose it.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/span><\/span>\u00a0smelled the fragrant skin. I touched the hair and watched the smile. A kiss. And then another. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I waited at the end of the aisle, heard the promise. Holding hands in solemn unity untill death\u2019s parting. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I had no idea. \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sacred thing, not to be tossed around carelessly. Still people use it to shower affection on their cats. And their cars. And their flannel sheets. And worse, fleshly pursuits with no heart twists the word beyond recognition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Webster-defined it\u2019s so constrained.\u00a0<\/span>Four letters. One syllable. Yet, eternity thunders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I had no idea<\/i>, until I found the Author of the word, and I\u2019m learning \u2026<\/span>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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How wide<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
and long<\/span><\/div>\n
and high<\/span><\/div>\n
and deep<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSurpassing knowledge. <\/span>\n

And I still have no idea.<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/span>

<\/span><\/i><\/span>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,\u00a0may have power, together with all the Lord\u2019s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,\u00a0and to know this love that surpasses knowledge\u2014that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.\u201d Eph 3<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Feel free to add your own thoughts here.<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/i>\n

We are participating in Bonnie Gray\u2019s Faith Jam today<\/a>, \u201cWhat\u2019s the One Word that will define your year?\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>
* Tip of the hat to Bruce Cockburn, \u201cLovers in a Dangerous Time<\/a>\u201c<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
Also inspiration credit to Chad Bruegmanof Red Rocks Church<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\"Enhanced<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
Please, share with a friend if you feel moved.
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