Love is an Ability
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2017
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I don't know if you remember this kind of older movie, but it's been the last within |
| 0:07.0 | the last decade, starring my buddy Steve Carell when I say buddy, I mean I watch him a lot. |
| 0:12.1 | That's why we're kind of good friends. |
| 0:14.1 | Anyways in Dan in real life there was this one great line, Steve Carell is talking to |
| 0:17.8 | his daughter's boyfriend and the boy looks at the dad, Steve Carell and says, love isn't |
| 0:25.6 | a feeling, it's an ability. |
| 0:28.4 | And it was one of those actual lines of like in the middle of this comedy that was pretty |
| 0:31.7 | you know, is touching and is sweet. |
| 0:32.8 | I was like, wow that's a really good line. |
| 0:34.6 | Love isn't a feeling, it's an ability. |
| 0:36.6 | And I think that is so important for us to remember because so many of us we think of |
| 0:41.2 | love as it's simply a feeling. |
| 0:43.4 | It's simply one of those things that like of course I can love. |
| 0:46.0 | Well here's the thing, you're made for love. |
| 0:48.8 | Like you come from love, you're made to love, your goal is to enter into love, your goal |
| 0:53.8 | is to be a gift of love with your whole life. |
| 0:56.3 | So love is actually something you're made for but it's not actually something all of |
| 1:00.5 | us know how to do because love isn't just a feeling, it's actually an ability, it's a |
| 1:04.8 | skill. |
| 1:05.8 | And I don't think we think of that though, I think we think of love as just like again, |
| 1:08.7 | we just kind of blindly do what we feel. |
| 1:11.8 | And I feel passionately about this person, I feel so strongly about this person that |
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