Love

If there is one word on our planet that is being used, misused and reused, it could be the word Love. Every body, man, woman, child needs and responds to love as we are provided with a heart to love and to be loved. No wonder love became the most talked after and sort after term. The moment a baby is born, it feels out of place in the chaotic environment compared to the quiet, dark and safe womb of its mother, until it feels the warmth and expressions of love from the mother herself. Love is the support or the more intellectual may call it the ‘crutch’ on which we humans lean on as we take on life’s challenges. Have you noticed the variations or shades of love around? Is a mother’s love the same as the love you have for your friends? Is it the same love that you share with your friends that you share with your life partner? Will you love your neighbour the same way as your brother or sister? Yes, love, affection, fondness, adoration, liking do carry with them different hues. There is the love that we love humanity as a whole which is quite general and often mingled with sympathy and there is the love which you feel toward a person of opposite sex looking first at the outward which gradually intensifies at the likeness of thoughts and dreams that you share. And there is yet another love that causes you to sacrifice all you possess for the better of that one person who matters most in your life. But there is one love which surpasses all this, the love that stands above circumstances, that never wavers but is the same no matter what. It is unconditional and has no strings attached. It is the love of God. It is He who causes the sun to rise on the good and the bad, causes good to triumph over evil and inspires us to love each other. His love cannot be measured as it is beyond our comprehension, limited as we are with our mortal bodies bound in time and space, yet He has shown His love by giving His life in place of our own as a perfect ransom for our liberty from the sinful world. So, let us always remember, God is love.

"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." - The Bible