If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving. --Anonymous.
The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost. --Gilbert K. Chesterton.
It is better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up. Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
-I Corinthians 13:4-8
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love.
-I Corinthians 13:13
WHAT IS LOVE?
Really, I don't know myself. I have heard so many definitions of the word. So many people think they know what love is. But in reality.......
None of the definitions I have heard or read agree well/totally with me. I think love means different things to different people.
"Love is blind", they say. And I agree with that totally. Love is blind while it lasts. But how long does it last?
AGAPE can last forever, I believe. I love my God now, and I always will. But all other types of love are complex. Agape is unconditional love for a Being that we accept to be superior to us, a Being that we cannot reach (at least not at the moment) and a Being that we look to for help (blessings, protection, grace, peace within, self-worthiness)......
But when you love another human-being.....another human-being like you....you are bound to notice flaws (character flaws, physical flaws and others) after sometime. NO HUMAN BEING IS PERFECT. So how can love be perfect?
Because noone is perfect, it is impossible to be loved by someone perfectly, because that "perfect love" is due only to one who is perfect.
Because noone is perfect, it is impossible to love another person perfectly. We even find it hard to love our God perfectly, yet He is perfect. We want to love God perfectly, yet we get tempted to sin. It is "not our fault" we sin....we are not perfect! Now, if we find it difficult to love our Perfect God perfectly, how can we love another human being with perfection?
I have spent a lot of time trying to understand what this thing is, called LOVE. There are lots of "points" about love.....some people believe them, some don't. I wrote the points out. I don't believe them all.
What do you think?