What Is Love

Love is many different things to different people and for that reason sometimes we ask; "What Is Love"? I know for sure what Love it is not and have known for a very long time.  My thoughts go to scripture that states; love is Kind, love is patient, love is not puffed up, love endureth all things and the list goes on.  If we lived a a perfect world, we would know completely and without reservations What Is Love.

I can't even think of what it would be like not to have love in my life.  Of course not because I am Mom. Most of us do not have to question What is Love, because we think we know it better than anyone, especially if we have become a Mother. Once you become a Mom, you understand so much more the absolute, perfect love.  No matter how a child acts, the love never goes away and the bond is there regardless of how much that child rejects that love.  It does not mean that sometimes it is better to have tough love than to see a child destroyed or for that matter let them know you will not agree to wrong doing.  It is hard to have "tough love" when you know it might put your child in danger and there may be some parents who are judged because they have not found the heart to put it into action, when maybe they should have. Those of us who have not had to deal with serious matters and implement this love act, should be so thankful at this holiday season for this as well as all things good.  I know that it must be hard when a parent has to say, if you going to act like this, please don't come to my house.  I know it must be one of the hardest things to have to visit a child in prison because they have gone in the wrong direction and did not heed their parents voice early on.  I think of so many situations where "tough love" has been replaced with complacent love and the parent is wondering; What is Love?

My next thoughts go to families where love didn't last and one spouse is wondering in the dark of the night; What is Love, anyway?  I know it is hard when a little child comes to Mommy and says; Mommy, can Daddy come for Thanksgiving?  What is more heartbreaking than this, is the fact that in so many situations when parents split, it could have been avoided in the first place if someone had been able to forgive and forget.  Not always, but so much of the time.  There are excuses for parents leaving sometimes that has nothing to with What is Love.  It is simply because, someone said;  you look so good today, my you look so sexy....or someone brushed along side of you and the sparks began to fly.......THAT'S NOT LOVE, PERIOD.  That is called "getting attention" and going to the wrong source to get it!!!  Feel guilty, you are suppose to!!!!  The grass is always greener "you think".  Once in the middle of the garden....you look back and wonder what made you do something so stupid!!  These are facts that occur everyday in our society.  When little babies are involved...it is far from being the act of love and we do not even have to ask; "What is Love".

What is Love?  Again, Love is:  patient, kind, considerate, longsuffering, forgiving over and over, positive, pure, without deception, without false statements, without critizism, without disrespect...oh, my I could go on and on and on!!!! Love is all things good if we choose it to be. spitirual-growth-spirituality