A man in the state of Eros really hasn't leisure to think about sex.

He is too busy thinking of a person.

The fact that she is a woman is far less important than the fact that she is herself.

If you asked him what he wanted, the true reply would often be to go on thinking of her.

He is Love's contemplative.

This is Pints for Jack, season five, episode 19.

The Four Loves Chapter 5, Eros, Part 1.

Good morning, everyone. Pints for Jack is your weekly C.S. Lewis podcast where three friends,

Andrew, David and Matt break down and discuss the works of C.S. Lewis. And this season, we're talking about love, slowly and deliberately working our way through the four loves, where Lewis

writes about affection, friendship,

romance, and charity. Good morning, gentlemen. Let's kick things off with some life updates,

and I think we should begin with the lead singer of the grunge band, The Hefty Flem, Mr. Matthew Bush.

Thank you for that introduction, everybody. It's a privilege and honor to be here.

Yeah, I do feel like it is subsiding.

I am, the cough, the COVID cough is gone.

So hopefully the lead singer dies.

I don't have a ton of life updates because we are coincidentally a little recording a lot in a short time period.

But I wanted to use this time for just some prayers.

I haven't done that as much.

But there's some individuals that I know that have been struggling with fertility stuff.

I'll leave it pretty vague because that's their journey.

But I could definitely use some prayers. It's been a multi-year struggle. And vague because that's their journey, but I could definitely

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