No matter the sacrifice, whatever the cost, love will not fail you.
What is love? A burning question that for some, is fully answered from the first moment they can remember until their very dying breath. Those who are blessed to be surrounded by love often have never even contemplated this question. All they have ever known is the love of their parents, then the love of their siblings, the love of their friends, the love of a spouse, followed by the love of their children. A life surrounded by love is truly a blessed life.
Yet there remain those who have somehow been less blessed. Or worse, perhaps even cursed when it comes to experiencing an uninterrupted continuum of love. For these less fortunate souls, the burning question still remains. It resonates like a gong, filling the void within their soul that was made only to be filled with love.
What is love?
Haddaway (©1994)
Baby, don’t hurt me
Don’t hurt me no more
Haddaway were edging onto something as they sang those lines. Is love simply to not hurt? Or is love more intricate, more nuanced in its complexity?
What is love?
Let us turn to ancient wisdom, there perhaps we will find the answer.
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.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a NKJV
Love never fails.
The above quote from the New Testament of the Holy Bible was written around the year 53 A.D. by the Apostle Paul (born Saul of Tarsus). He gives an in-depth description of what love isn’t and also alludes to what love does. But does he fully answer the burning question…
What is love?
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8 NKJV
The above quote also from the New Testament of the Holy Bible was written around the year 95 A.D. by the Apostle John (born the son of Zebedee & Salome). Here he gives an absolute corker of an answer. God is love! So from that can we permit ourselves to deduce that love is God?
What an incredible thought! I think that answers the burning question quite nicely. Personally to me it makes a lot of sense.
When we experience love, we experience something so profound and remarkable. That we can often struggle to find words to express the depth of the emotion, the unfathomably deep connections of joy, peace, acceptance, security, contentment, satisfaction, and enlightenment.
Love causes our hearts to swell, at times taking our breath away, flooding our eyes with tears of joy. And even leaving us tingling with excitement, filled with the anticipation for more.
What better way is there to describe it? God is love — Love is God! Love connects us with the divine. Love connects us with the infinite, the eternal. Love opens the door for us to experience our spiritual reality. When we love we are moving in the essence of our creator.
Now we know why love feels so good!
How else would you describe love?
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