Tru Love =)

The words “love” and “family” are two extremely strong words of the English language. However, there are also used so often that they have somewhat lost their true meaning and uniqueness. Love is just as equally important as family but I think that one can have a strong love for their family. This love creates the bonds for a close-knit family, which is also extremely important. In essence, both are just as equally important but as long as you have love, a good family will also come with a little extra hard work and effort.

Even though love is such a complicated topic, I am going to attempt to define love. Love is the most important thing in our lives. But wrongly, we usually reduce it to parental love or to romantic love, forgetting the many other forms it may assume. Love is a very strange feeling, taking many forms such as the love of friends, of life, of ideas, of animals, of music, other forms of art, of God, of power, of money, of cruelty and of course the passionate love for a significant partner. As you can see there is the bad kind of love as well such as the love of money, cruelty and the heartless love expressed by executioners and psychopaths. There are obviously both sides to any issue. The good and bad love both come from the same source but I think it is up to us to fight off the bad kind to allow for the good love to prosper.

Love is a blessed mystery is that I think we ALL long for. WE long to love and to be loved by others. I could compare love to gravity because it is vast, invisible, an unstoppable force that connects all things. Love is very well summarized in the Bible, Corinthians 13,

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth; it bears all