Thought for today, from Wendell Berry:
"Well, we've degraded the word love to mean simply feeling. Which is alright except you don't feel loving all the time, you know. And what Lewis is saying is love is a practice-- it is something you do. Wherether you feel like it or not, like milking your cows. And you understand that, well that's painful."
Berry is quoted from a 2000 interview with Kate Turner, commenting on C.S. Lewis' portrayel of love as a discipline and a practice. Quoted by Matthew T. Dickerson and David O'Hara in "The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis" in Creation Care magazine.
