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What is Love?
~Linda Ellis~
Some have tried to describe love
with words like affection or devotion...
but it cannot be described with words;
it is a most complex emotion.
The power of love must be experienced
to understand its definition...
it is seldom found when searched for...
it is passion...lacking inhibition.
It’s comprised of many feelings;
it harbors jealousy…and fear
and the joy or pain it makes you feel
can be the most severe.
There is love built on caring and
trust
felt for a husband or a wife;
that person whom you’ve chosen
to share the experiences of life.
There is an embedded love you feel;
the most instinctive one on earth.
The love for a child you’ve created
that’s ingrained before his birth.
There is a love filled with gratitude
for a father and a mother,
and those ties that bind the family
are unlike any other.
Yes, our lives have different types
of love,
and as the years fall in succession…
one will leave upon your inner soul
it’s indelible impression.
What is Love 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
says "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, it
keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth. It always trusts, always
hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
To come upon Love, one must first
deny, in oneself, all that is not Love. Love is not
jealousy, anger, pleasure, desire, thought, feeling, or
sensation. So what is Love? Can one say what Love is, or
can we come upon it through negation? For Love to be,
there must be Freedom. Freedom from ones personal
travail is necessary for one to come upon Love. Where
there is ambition, manipulation, jealousy, greed, anger
or other negatively charged emotions, Love is not. Love
can only exists when there no conflict. One may say
there are many kinds of Love. The Love which heals all
sorrows is not emotional, sentimental, or full of
desire. The Love which heals all sorrow is only when
everything else isn't.
Understand in truth that love is not
a feeling, but a state of being. You do not fall
in love, you become love. And once love, you find
that you cannot fall. |
