Letters Of Love

Letters Of Love

Sylwia Mills's "Better of Love" is a profound book on Christian love that dispels stereotypes, contending that passion isn't about being perfect but rather dogged, stubborn devotion. Styled as forty "Love Labs," Mills works from courtroom dramas and redemption tales to uncover how contemporary culture commercializes love to the point of reducing it to mere emotion.

Real love, she maintains, is a holy discipline: "the daily choice to see Christ in the crucible of conflict." The witty wordplay on the title reinforces his argument: Love doesn't make life simpler; it enriches it.

Mills's method is wonderfully practical. Every lab combines biblical reading with practical exercises, such as "Forgiveness Accounting, "Boundary Gardening," and "Communion Under Construction." One highlight chapter reimagines the Good Samaritan as a contemporary neighbor loving her estranged father with dementia, "oil and wine poured into fractured history."

Mills also addresses overlooked themes: erotic love as worship, righteous indignation as defense, and loving enemies through "holy boundaries." For doubters, she adds conversations with atheist clients whose acts of sacrifice uncovered "anonymous grace." With its blend of legal acuity and poetic compassion, Better of Love is essential reading for anyone weary of cheap grace, offering a blueprint for love that endures, heals, and brings life to the world.