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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Johnny Dade and I'm a vicar in the Church of England
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Love, love changes everything, so goes the iconic song from Andrew Lloyd Webber, famously performed by Michael Ball
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More songs have been written, more ink has been spilled, more wars have been waged because of love than just about anything else
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But what is love? Comically, the Urban Dictionary defines love as a wildly misunderstood, although highly desirable, malfunction of the heart
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which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, and blood pressure to rise
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Hmm, maybe. One of Jesus dearest disciples John wrote extensively about love notably God love for us In his gospel account he even refers to himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved More on that later John exhorted Christians to love one
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another for love comes from God. God, John wrote, is both the source and the definition of love
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That's quite a thing to say. In fact, the Bible really challenges our modern notions of love as
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subjective, relative, whatever we might want it to be. But what if, to quote another song lyric
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Love is more than a feeling. What if love is definable, knowable even
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Now that really would change everything
