Is Love Kinetic Movement?
Love Not as Emotion but as Kinetic Motion — Movement
I was speaking with a dear friend over the phone, and we wandered into a fascinating topic of conversation. I felt it merited a deeper dive as a concept. So grab your metaphorical boots and prepare yourself to look at love not as emotion, but as kinetic motion.
Love as Movement
We all know what love is. Or do we?
That is the question turning within me as I ponder.
Last week I wrote a series entry about love and its nature in our life — Yeshua as Love perfected and manifested. You can access that here.
Now, we will not be rehashing the 1 Corinthians 13 version of Love again, as we already touched upon it in the aforementioned article. Instead, what we will be doing is a bit of metaphorical thought-building. A thought experiment, if that is what you want to call it.
I call it thinking deeply.
What if Love is not just a feel-good emotion that comes and goes like heat or cold?
What if Love is actually thought of as motion?
When we give love, we invest a measure of our God-given motion — a bit of ourselves — through love displayed, offered, even sacrificed in the hope of reciprocation.
We do so hoping that our act, our motion, translates into love delivered: the small kindness of buying a brother a cup of coffee for no reason other than that kindness wanted to be seen.
Love is not feeling only.
I posit that if we treat love as a feeling, we rob it of its sustaining power.
Picture this, Beloveds:
You and I stand across from each other, about ten feet apart, with a soccer ball between us. Just sitting there. Motionless.
If nothing is done, the scene stagnates.
Now enter the spark of motion: one soul steps forward to kick the ball toward the other.
Pay close attention: the initial reason for the movement — the desire to spark the motion of Love — was the whisper of the Father as Love perfected, instigating the initial investment.
Now the ball is kicked.
The spark is struck.
The Love invested by the Father, multiplied through obedience, suddenly becomes embodied motion.
Maybe James would have called it a work.
I call it movement.
Now the second soul sees the ball barreling toward her. It carries far more momentum than the spark that began it, because embodiment and obedience act as multipliers of Love itself.
But imagine this: the second soul receives the ball between her feet and does not move a muscle. She does not return the kick. She does not stoop to pick it up.
In fact, she seems to have no ability — or desire — to perceive the ball as love at all.
Now we analyze the act:
The love that had been gathering kinetic movement through reciprocation and obedience is now lavished on a soul unable or unwilling to participate.
And thus the act begun and carried out lies dead at the second soul's feet.
Now consider another outcome.
If the second soul received and returned the ball — with sincerity matching the first — we would witness the formation of a dialogue. A relationship. A dynamic.
Romance, friendship, devotion, eros, agape — the thousand forms Love takes — all depend on this reciprocation.
Love, sourced from the Father, moves through each participant. If the chain of motion breaks anywhere, Love lies stunned and wounded. Powerless to challenge a world growing cold and dark, run by fools clutching nuclear launch codes.
So we come to this truth:
Love as Motion.
If hoarded and withheld, its momentum dims and dries.
We cannot store that which was meant to be poured out lavishly — with smiles, defiant joy, and a holy disregard for the “wisdom” of this present age.
These are my thoughts when considering Love as kinetic motion — accumulated acts that transform the fabric of our world.
Think of it:
In closing, Yeshua came and invested the entirety of Unity with the Father into an act of self-sacrifice so sublime that it kinetically ignited the dead hearts of creation from past to future within a single suspended moment.
It burns still within my breast.
And I tell you truthfully: we who share in this ministry are not meant to sip from that fountain without pouring out our own lives as offering — to replenish what was given to us without cost.
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