Student Chosen Topic #4 - Adam Paquette

 Agape Love 05/01/2021 - I was pondering on the topic of family today and was thinking of the love that family shows one another. More specifically the love that most parents give to their children. Parents do things for their children each day, our of love for them. Parents can go to work in order to make money for their family to have a good life by paying for their education, paying for necessities, and so on. In addition, parents may stay home and take care of their children by preparing food, giving up leisure time, and overall taking care of their children. Through all of this, I believe parents are showing agape love to their children, especially if they do not ask for anything in return from their children. Parents are very selfless because they give up so much in order to make their children happy in their life by taking them to games, giving them gifts, and even showing that they care through quality time. Parents are and can be a prime example of individuals who show agape love on a daily basis. Agape love “is divine love that is universal, transcendent over all yet unconditionally immanent within and available to all” (Yong, 2012, p. 15). Most of the parent's actions are living examples of agape love shown towards their children. Agape love is available to all to give and even receive. As I think back to my high school teaching of agape love, God is the highest example known for showing agape love. He sent down his only son to save humanity and so much more. Parents all follow in the footsteps of the Lord in order to show and caring on the practice of agape love.

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