Allow Authentic Love to Be Your Number One Priority
The human person has three primary drives. We all possess the drive for 1) Pleasure, 2) Power and 3) Purpose. Our drives for pleasure and for power supplement our drive for purpose. In other words, these two lesser drives aid us in accomplishing our purpose in life, which is to love well. Everyone’s individual and collective purpose is to love well in their lifetime. Obviously then, if human nature was perfect, the Planet Earth would be a utopia of loving people. No one would ever go hungry, no one would place his/her personal gain ahead of anyone else’s, no one would ever be marginalized and no one would ever die alone after having spent years feeling unlovable. But human nature is not perfect. It’s broken. And as a result, we don’t always do a good job of loving well. Some of us are so broken that we never fully understand our purpose in life and we are too fearful to pursue it. Instead, we get stuck in our drive for pleasure or our drive for power. As a striking example, let’...