"Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love..." - Erich Fromm
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10
"Love is grace standing on justice." - B.J.E. May
My most favourite description of love to date is this:
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. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 THAT, my friends, is LOVE in its TRUEST, PUREST form.
A couple of articles about love in case you're interested:
Nature of Love
Blocks to Love
My Wife Is Not The Same Woman That I Married
I have been wondering if good old-fashioned romance still exists. You know the kind where the couple makes it work over great distances and time?? The kind where a guy will ride his bike across the country or swim the ocean to see his girl??
In this day and age, with online dating sites and whatnot, it's so easy to cast your net on the other side of the boat and lavish your affections on the next fish out of the sea....especially when there are obstacles to/in a relationship.
Those were my thoughts when I happened upon a story by Amy Seger called, "Five Dates, Eleven Hundred Letters and Fifty-Five Years Later." This true story is about a couple who met during the second world war. They had only been on a few dates when they vowed to write to each other daily while the guy, an American soldier, was abroad. The couple was apart for 16 months and during that time they wrote 1100 letters! When the soldier returned to the U.S, he mailed home a 23 pound package of letters from his love. A month after their joyous reunion they were married.
Does anyone write love letters anymore?
