Love Life Word Work

Since I started my other weblog, Open Source Love, I’ve been writing about four posts a week on it. (I don’t write that often here.) I don’t know that they are all of the highest quality but they are there and I am writing.
The original premise is that love is a universal constant with the human race, like natural law—really I think love is natural law. I am trying to get across the idea that we all know about love, to one degree or another, and that we all value it and try to apply it to our lives in whatever ways we feel we can.
I have been talking about various blocks and hindrances to love and the fact that we all struggle with these hindrances.
Here are some of the posts:
Love is First
Love: the Kernel of Natural Law
When Does Love Stop Loving?
And here’s the flagship post:
And Open Sourced Operating System for Humanity
So bookmark, syndicate it or put it in your networking system and watch this space.
Any pertinent feedback is welcome.

This post is way overdue. I first met Ken Rideout several years ago and have loved him ever since.

Ken spent many years learning about and learning to love the people of Thailand. He says, when asked, his calling is a teacher of God’s love. He learned to connect with folks who have no idea of Western culture or Biblical authority by appealing to their sense of natural law, or the law of karma. In this way, with non-judgmental love and personal approach, he led teams that helped change people’s lives individually and collectively.

Then, two or three years ago a heavenly match was made between Ken and the Henleys, Ralph and Karyn. Together they finished and published Ken’s book The Truth You Know You Know. This is a book aimed at Christians interested in learning how to share faith with others in different cultures, and in our pluralistic culture right here and now.

I was blessed to receive the Henley’s hospitality on more than one occasion, interacting with Ken about these lessons and others. [Those were good times. Thanks, Karyn and Ralph.]

One of Ken’s sayings is that the gospel of Jesus Christ is “self-validating,” which means that it rings true quite naturally in the hearts of persons, even though they might never have heard anything about it before. People take it in and accept it because it fits.

Here’s the web site: Ken Rideout: The Truth You Know You Know

Now for the rest of the story. While Karyn Henley was “sitting at his feet” as she says about the time she worked with Ken preparing the book for publication, she managed to internalize the teaching so well she decided, with Ken’s support, to write a second book putting forth the same ideas, but in a form more suited to youth (Karyn’s main readership).

Here’s the book on Karyn’s site.

Here’s the amazon link: Love Trumps Karma, Uncovering the Truth You Know You Know

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I have jumped into the blogger pool and have made a new weblog called Open Source Love. It’s about the universality of love, the basis of natural law and all law, for that matter. Really love the is the root of all life on earth, the best thing—really the only thing.

I want to develop an interactive site. I already have the name, but first I will ruminate by blogging in the blogging pool and seeing if I get any feedback.

Here it is: Open Source Love