Love

 

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (Corinthians 13:4 onwards)

This passage from the Bible is read in a lot of wedding ceremonies.

But sadly, when things start to go wrong and difficulties lead to separations and divorce, it is soon forgotten.

It reminds me of the story of the man who said,"my wife introduced me to religion; I never knew what hell was until I married her!"

Mind you, the comment also applies to husbands, not just wives.

Love is a commitment. It is a decision we make, not just a feeling when we first meet someone and get to "like" them and want to be with them. 

I guess it is easier to love someone we don't know than someone we have lived with for sometime and got to know their failings.

Love is a vocation. Whether we are married, single, widowed, divorced or separated; love is a decision that we make.

Love is another word for caring. Caring for our partners, our family, our community or whoever. If we are single we can still care for others by the way we behave. 

Caring means doing something about it; not just sympathising from a distance and feeling sorry.

The greatest example of love is: 

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

I think perhaps we should replace the word "whosoever" with our name. Try it. See how it feels.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that if Victor believes in Him he should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

We are each loved by God individually. Can we love others as He has loved us?

As for me ... I think love is eating the last piece of pizza to help my wife lose weight.