Love Song

Love. Today we talk about love.

Why love?

Because I have just spent the past week watching the Tumblr meltdown over the Klaine box scene.

Translations: Tumblr (social networking site, like blogging only with lots more gifs)

Klaine (Kurt and Blaine, two characters on Glee, two boys in a relationship)

Box scene (A script from the Christmas episode of the 3^rd season of Glee that was purchased (and money raised for charity) with the express intent of finding out what was in the box from Blaine to Kurt. It did not disappoint.)

Where does this leave me as a Christian blogger? Perhaps you are expecting certain things. Certain things from Leviticus or Romans. You won’t find them here if you are. Why? Because I haven’t made my mind up, haven’t researched everything regarding the issue and I don’t want to make assumptions for others in their personal walks with Christ.

I will tell you that a whole host of issues comes up with me and Klaine. And the biggest issue is probably the world’s expectation of love.

First, don’t get hung up on all the different types of love found in the bible (Greek words like phileo, agape, etc…). It’s distracting, lets just go with “love” as a general term and go from there.

Love to a Klaine fan means this speech:

“To always love you. To defend you even if I know you’re wrong. To surprise you. To always pick up your call no matter what I’m doing. To bake you cookies at least twice a year and to kiss you whenever and wherever you want. Mostly to make sure that you always remember how perfectly imperfect you are.”

How can you not like what he says? A bunch of Klainites on tumblr have equated these words to a marriage vow and in many ways I agree. I love the romantic feel (and free cookies!) and the sentiment of embracing imperfections. Its refreshing in so many ways and so poetic and so everlasting.

And it’s love. It’s romance. But is it real?

God proclaimed his love for us by sending His son to die on a cross for us so that we might all be saved.

New casting crowns asks about that love and how far it takes sin away from us. Response: From east to west.

http://youtu.be/GjvOpff_ReE

For me, the trouble is rectifying the two because if another guy said something like what Blaine said to Kurt, I can’t imagine that I would have a problem with it. Truth is, I’m hungry for someone to say that to me in many ways.

http://youtu.be/bKcgJzj6WBU

And I’m hungry for God. It’s like the god things two weeks back- we crave the thing which satisfies but we create something that won’t sustain us permanently just to satiate the temporary pain. The little gods of marriage vows over loving God and the day to day that really looks like.

So love.

Some might say love is in your heart and you’re a prisoner to it.

Some might say that God is love and should be all sustaining.

Some might say to love who you want as long as I don’t have to see it.

Some might say that love has no gender.

Have we made love into our own god? Have we taken the promise of love and bowed to it? Watching Klaine and reading fan fiction makes me think that at least my generation and the one beneath us has. The biggest trouble is not knowing how, when, or why you did it.

Klaine seems natural sometimes and silly sometimes and vain sometimes but it doesn’t seem wrong. Is it wrong though? Do I live in a Roman account or from Levitical standards at face value or do I take into account that there was a commentary that said homosexuality was only a sin for prostitutes and pimps that engaged in it?

More questions than answers.

Especially if you want God more than anything.