"Is love a fancy or a feeling...."? --Sense and Sensibility--
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Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." --Franklin P. Jones--
Today is Valentines Day, the day many couples look forward to. The day you can show those you love, how much you care, spoiling them with gifts and cards. Some people will go out on a limb today and venture to see if their 'secret' valentine wants to be theirs too.
As I ponder, the meaning of this day only seems to intrigue me. What is love? Or what is love as described as others?
Some describe love as a feeling, something that can change from one moment to the next. One day you are totally in love with someone, the next day you have 'fallen out' of love with that same person.
How can this be so? If that is what happens, then I sincerely wonder if it was true and unselfish love at all that they displayed.
Your love should not disappear because of circumstances, but should grow
despite circumstances.
To me, love is a choice. You may not always 'feel' in love with someone but its your actions, your determination to love this person, despite whatever shortcomings that may be present.
Its
giving, not taking.
I can't help but turn to the Author of Love. The Only One Who knows and displays unconditional love, towards those who are so undeserving.
I Corinthians 13 (known as the
love chapter)
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
