Week 4 Day 7 Writing about love.

The Unfailing Love: (1 Corinthians 13: 1-13)

There is something really corny about writing about love. Love is often harder to write about than evil. What makes some love stories, songs or quotes so cringe worthy?

What is the difference between 1 Corinthian 13:1-3 (list A)
"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing".

and 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 (list B)?

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Which list A or B is more cringe worthy? Why?

Can you create poems, stories, videos etc that capture love without being cringe worthy? Share it on Facebook or find good quotes to share. Or send a card or loving encouraging note to someone you know.

Food for thought: 

If love is seen in this verse as mundane, rather than beautiful or "sublime", how does it change our priorities (esp if you are passionately artistic)?

This video explores Edmund Burke's view of the sublime and beautiful; ideas that had a huge influence on Romanticism. Briefly, Romanticism is an intellectual orientation characterizing many works of literature, music, painting, architecture, criticism and historical work from the late 1700s into the mid 1800s. It is a rejection of the premises of reason, calm, order, rationality and general / abstract thought that epitomized the neoclassicism (or Age of Reason) of the 1700s. Romanticism, consequently, values subjectivity, individuality, irrationality, the Imagination, the personal, the emotional, the visionary, the spontaneous and the transcendental. How much is our notions of love affected by such ideals even today?

Consider how "love" in works of art would be portrayed differently if captured through the mundane.