The Power of Love

When you’re depressed or in a psychotic crisis, it’s normal to believe our negativity is everything there is, but the power of love and light is a constant we can tap into.

Guest post by Sónia Monteiro

Pop culture immortalized this sequence of words that gives title to at least two well-known songs, one by Celine Dion, another by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. 

Both poems sing that facet of love between lovers. 

But there is more to love than eros.

According to the great academic and writer C. S. Lewis in his book The Four Loves, there are at least four types of love: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity.

All four features provide forms of love transmuted into different aspects of reality that share a common ground, or should I say, a common God.

 

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