{"id":69841,"date":"2024-09-17T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=69841"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:08:06","slug":"true-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/true-love-2\/","title":{"rendered":"True Love (Moyer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>by Doy Moyer<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/love-200x300.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>True love is not about infatuation, mushy feelings, and giddy joy. While these may occasionally attend love, true love is found in the trenches of life. Love is knowing that you have each other&#8217;s backs at the end of the day. It&#8217;s working through difficulties and not fearing that the next disagreement or bad mood will destroy a marriage or friendship. True love is about forgiveness, reconciliation, steadfast loyalty, and absolute commitment. It is not just feelings but is shown in dedicated action. It is providing support, lifting each other up, and seeking first the needs of one another. It is striving to love as Christ loved and gave Himself for us. It is hard work, but always worth it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Doy Moyer True love is not about infatuation, mushy feelings, and giddy joy. While these may occasionally attend love, true love is found in the trenches of life. Love is knowing that you have each other&#8217;s backs at the end of the day. It&#8217;s working through difficulties and not fearing that the next disagreement&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-69841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-love"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70945,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/peace-and-truth\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":0},"title":"Peace and Truth","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer There are people I genuinely like but with whom I have strong disagreements. Some are on opposite theological and political isles, yet I feel kindly disposed toward them. I cannot explain this. It's just something that you either get or don't. I suspect that this is true\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45197,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/brotherly-love-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":1},"title":"Brotherly Love (Moyer)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer In our modern-day, \"love\" has many faces. A man may see a woman for the first time and say, \"I'm in love.\" What he means is, \"I have a strong attraction.\" To some, \"love\" implies lust. Basically, \"love\" means anything we want it to mean in whatever\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":67090,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/calling-attention-to-the-heart\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":2},"title":"Calling Attention to the Heart","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer One can work and not have faith, but one cannot have a living faith and not work. One can do for others and not have love, but one cannot love and not do for others. 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