![]() ![]() In His case, it was His deliberate choice to love the loveless, to reach across time and space, the infinite to the finite, and love, with all that entails. Scripture gets at it when it observes that God “set His love” on Israel (Deut. ![]() More booklet than book, Trobisch’s point was not novel and yet was paradigm-changing for me: Love is not merely or primarily a feeling but an action, verb and not noun. A clanging announced the onset of radiator heat a Southern Railways train periodically roared noisily through campus a block away, rattling our single window and goings on by the less studious echoed off the uncarpeted hallways. It was an antiquated building, the oldest dormitory on campus. That September I had moved in with a high school acquaintance, Rick, a stocky design school student who was the son of one of my mother’s good friends. In 1976 I was sitting in my dormitory room, a freshman at university, reading a 1971 book by Walter Trobisch, entitled Love Is a Feeling to Be Learned. ![]()
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