Love Beyond Reason
I had a thought the other day. What if we actually understood love? I mean not in the flaky artificial, fabricated sense that we are surrounded with; but REAL Love?
You know the kind. It makes you question your inner most thoughts and your own desires, it effects you so much that you want to change the person who you are. The love that is a choice, not an emotion.
What would happen if we understood that Love? Do you think that it would change our world? Do you think it would change our family?
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 protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
I think that the reason that I ask this question is because it has occurred to me that we have no clue what Love actually looks like. I mean, we have some vague recollection, but nothing definite. We are caught up in an emotional understanding of this word love, and it annoys me. Because if we really Loved, then we would act different.
Most of all, the part that annoys me is that we already have this infinite example of Love, but we refuse to acknowledge it. We consider it passe. In fact, it's so passe that the minute that this example is mentioned, you become tied to it and stereotyped.
You know... Christ. Jesus.
If you think about it, he is Love. But we don't want to acknowledge that there might be something to it. Nor do we want to be stereotyped. So is that the problem? is the problem that we are so afraid of being associated with Jesus that refuse to Love?
What would our world look like if we Loved?
