The definition of love: Always and in all ways.
Someone once said that to me in what now seems a far away place and time. But it is not until now that I realized how powerful that statement is. Can any of us say we truthfully will love ANYTHING always and in all ways? Our favorite sports teams are going to fail, our tastes for favorite foods will change as age catches up to us, and even our friends and family will frustrate and disappoint. Sometimes we will even hate ourselves, whether for lack of willpower, or poor decision making, or something else. So what’s the point of even trying? If we are just going to stop short, why waste the emotion on such a hopeless endeavor?
I have a theory. Granted I could be completely off base or delusional (those who know me-stop laughing) I just think it is because love and faith are fundamentally complementary; essential to each other if you will. Without love, faith is meaningless, and without faith, love is next to impossible. Both are necessary for human survival. Not necessarily our physical survival but rather that which is at the core of it all…the human soul. That which separates us from all other living things, makes us unique, makes us whole. The most over used and trivialized word in our language is perhaps its most important; and its within that triviality that we forget how love began and how love will end: with purpose, by design, no end in sight. It is in this FACT, we can take comfort and pursue that which most often eludes us the most.
“I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -C.S. Lewis
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Without love, the world and all of it’s crafty, strategic creations breathed to life by the Love of all would be non-existant. Therefore, we would have no faith to love. It is because of love that we were given a faith. Now through faith, we give back to the One who first loved us.
P.S Ixoyc= Whitney