standing under love

I had a discussion the other day with some friends and the interpretation of “love” came up in the conversation.
Perhaps we have been clouded in our understanding of what love is. Perhaps we have been bombarded with Hollywood’s portrayal (or should we say betrayal) of love. What if we saw love as simply being the resonance with things? What if love really means harmony? The love of or for someone else would then be seen as the way we harmonise or flow with them. The way we accommodate them into our world, making space for them and flowing together?
When we feel a connection with someone whether it is romantic or not we tend to want to make space for the person, for the relationship, for what resonates between us. We make space to flow with them.
Maybe this is real love?
To extend this to greater things like the universe, peace, life, and death, even God, perhaps we can say resonance with life is love for life. Maybe love for God is the way we are able to resonate with the finely tuned creation around us. People, the earth, animate and inanimate things, all these are the manifestation of a creative act and are all good and in harmony (at least that is what is recorded as God’s declaration of the creative act in the Genesis account). Perhaps it’s when this is contradicted that the trouble begins? What if the judgment of God were not an act of personal attack on the created order or on individuals but a direct consequence of the created order being violated? Could it be that when we violate this perfect order we personally reap the consequences of our actions?
It also says that God cannot be mocked and that we will reap what we sow. Selfish, self-centred actions are contrary to harmony and resonance. Could the distortion of our environment as a result of intentional or unintentional deviance from this God created order be the tangible judgment of God?
Perhaps the dissonance we feel is linked directly to the domain we occupy? We can either occupy our space legitimately or illegitimately. If we are to live in harmony with ourselves, others and our environment we are in need of being respectful of the space we occupy. If this is violated we are automatically in disequilibrium. And we clash with ourselves, others and our environment. One could possibly even say that we become a cancer in that space.

Maybe love is being ecologically aware and respectful?
“ecology” in the dictionary is defined as 1. a. The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments. Also called bionomics.
b. The relationship between organisms and their environment.
2. The branch of sociology that is concerned with studying the relationships between human groups and their physical and social environments. Also called human ecology.
3. The study of the detrimental effects of modern civilization on the environment, with a view toward prevention or reversal through conservation. Also called human ecology.
The origins of the word are given as: [German Ökologie : Greek oikos, house;  German -logie, study (from Greek -logi, -logy).]

Could this suggest reference to the “house” of God? His dwelling place, his order?

If God has set in place a divinely ordered creational expression our highest response would be to understand (stand under) this reality and resonate with the purposes of God. If we deviate from this we ‘miss the mark’ (sin)

Maybe love is not a feeling but an understanding?