into a passive sense. We have done the same with the word “love,” by the way. The French philosopher Gustav Thibon roots the word in the Latin lubere, libere which mean, successively, “to please” and “to liberate.” If that were the case, to love someone would not be feeling ticklish feelings when he or she is around, it would be serving, caring for, tending to, pleasing, and meeting that person’s needs. Love is a work. Chesterton observes this very point about married love. “In everything worth having,