Throughout the novel Grace Awakening, Grace is developing an understanding of the complexities of love. The Greeks have a linguistic separation for many aspects of what in English is just one word. Shawn took the separate Greek words, and assigned a character for each of them. Here is a peek at the various terms and a short defining acrostic poem for each.
Storge- Securely trusting our relations gives endurance (love of family)
Philia- Pleasant honesty in love invokes awareness (brotherly love)
Agape- all good actions precede evolution (sacrificial love)
Eros- Energy revolves on sensuality (sexual desire)
Thelema- True hungriness encapsulates love’s ethos, making accomplishment (desire for success)
Xenia- xenograft enters new internal adventure (love of strangers, hospitality) (‘xenograft’ is a foreigner, great word, eh?)
