I’m thinking about love today. It’s the most Powerful force In the world and the ultimate force that sways human behavior. You don’t just feel it all of a sudden, it grows, changes, and matures. This is why “love at first sight” is not possible. It’s not based on sight and yet the sight of that one person can change not only your day, but your entire life.
You don’t fall in love, you choose love. When you fall into a feeling, it’s called infatuation. When you make a choice to be there for someone and with someone regardless of feeling, that’s called love. Because of this fact, you don’t just fall in love with anybody. You can be attracted to many people because attraction is merely liking a persons appearance. You can become infatuated with any person that was a good date or whose personality you enjoy. But true love can only be experienced with a small number of people.
For me, love came in Late April of 2004, and I didn’t even notice it. It would develop over that summer and by August of that year, attraction and infatuation had set into place. Over the next few months it became apparent to me that I cared about this girl deeply. On a random day I walked around the parking lot of a walmart in Yuba City, California and I thought about my feelings for this girl and what I was willing to do about them. I wondered whether she was worth taking a risk and as I contemplated her beauty, her intelligence, her character, her relationship with God, I realized that she was worth more than just a risk; she was worth my time, my money, and my life. I loved her on that day and I never turned back.
Love is a risk worth taking. Love is a devotion that lasts a lifetime. Love is a challenging journey that you agree to take with one person regardless of whatever comes your way. Love is to recognize that one person belonged by your side since the beginning of time and the joy of realizing that you have finally found them. Love is looking at that one person while the rest of the world slowly fades away into the background.
When you find love, true love, it is impossible to lose it. Love is a mindful choice that selects this one person as Your friend, your lover, your partner in a journey that is fully about the other person as opposed to yourself. Love is a covenant between you, another person and God, the creator of love and of your love with the other person. You don’t love the other person out of obligation or duty, you love them in worship to God and in the joy of having them. Those are the things that SHE has taught me about love…
About Me
- J
- I love writing. If you want to know anything else just ask me or else read up! I have two blogs ("A Pen Itching To Bleed Onto Paper" and "The Rebirth of J"). One of my blogs (A Pen...) is updated more frequently than the other. "The Rebirth” is more of a story I am writing with my life whereas "A Pen" would be my random thoughts past, present, and future in this unfolding journey I call life. If this is your first time reading my blog, please visit Post #2 for the month of April 2008 in my "A Pen" blog archives... Thanks!
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I'm not really great with the love thing, but it is free & heartfelt when I'm really feeling it. And tiny thoughtful gestures abound.
~Mary
You are my forever love....You have taught me what true love is, and it is you who I choose to spend the rest of my life with!
_You are my one and only...FOr an entire lifetime
I like this post. For me, love is action and a decision (not the touchy feely part)to accept a person for who they are, to want the best for them, to make them a priority in your life, spend time...Jesus is the best example of what love is while he was alive.
Love is action, not the touchy feely part which actualy ends. However, those feeling usually become present. Then, you know it is right.
I am amazed at what my husband, my therapist and God has taught me about my ability to love and to give love even to myself.
I like what Miss Garza said!!! :-)
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