What is love?

Love… such a broad question. To put it bluntly to me love is putting the other person (their hopes, desires, well being, etc) in front of your own. Pretty much making them priority in your life. Love is forgiving, slow to anger and easy to understanding. Love is always wanting that person in your life, right next to you.

Love is work and a commitment. The reason a lot of marriages fail is because they think they don’t love the other person anymore. Well, at the beginning of a marriage and any relationship they feel a fire. A burning passion to be with that person. Well, after a while that fire will die down (not go out). It is there where you see commitment take place. Not that its miserable, but it becomes more work involved. And people cheat because they think their out of love so that gives them an excuse… but C.S. Lewis wrote the perfect quote for that “Obedience (to a marriage) didn’t fail due to lack of love, but love failed through lack of obedience.”

How do I know it exists?… well if it wasn’t for my brother marrying his girlfriend of 9 years, I wouldn’t know what is. My parents divorced, fell in love twice both to end in flames. I’m about to go all christian on ya, but we were created out of Love, we were created to love. God exists… and if God exists, then so does love. For it is by his love for me, I’m gonna be in heaven. It’s also by his love, I am able to love others.

Love is also something we must learn as we grow. A 13 year old can’t comprehend the vast complexity and depth of Love. It is something we experience and grow up learning.

And you can typically tell the difference between Love and Lust. Lust is typically after the person’s body and things you can get out of that person. But if you desire the person on the inside as well as the person on the outside, and you are willing to do whatever it takes to keep that person around you and happy then that’s love.

Yes, it is obtainable. It is not easy, but it is possible.

I hope I answered your question.