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What does it mean, to understand the love I want to have, to have known what it feels like, and to know that the person with whom I feel it is not the person I can be with?
When I'm with him we hold hands. He makes me feel less crazy for being in love with the little things in life. He makes it okay that I want to throw bouncy balls off tall buildings, race matchbox cars in the metro, and lie around all day watching cartoons from my childhood. When I'm with him I don't need to understand him, and he knows that he doesn't need to have the answers for my questions. It's enough that we are each other, with each other.
When I'm not with him don't think about who he's with. I don't wait for him to call me, but I allow myself to be thrilled and surprised when he does.
I'm learning a lot about what is important in my life, and I have learned a lot about love from one person, and some more about it from many other people. I don't know what love looks like. I know that I need a love that is peaceful, that is understanding and thoughtful and full of grace.
The best love never tries to hurt the people they love, but takes responsibility for it when they do, and trusts the people that they love to know that they are not perfect. Together we create a space where it is alright to be human, to make mistakes.
The best love is not afraid to express when they are upset, knowing that feeling a certain way is alright, but that acting out of that feeling may not be. We are able to express our feelings without using them to manipulate one another.
The best love shines a light in the dark corners, challenges the people they love to be the very best people they are capable of being. We support one another in good times and in hard times.
Love is not limited by number, by gender, by physical appearence or ability. If I tell you that I love you, no matter who you are in my life, these are the things I am telling you.
1 comment:
"The best love shines a light in the dark corners, challenges the people they love to be the very best people they are capable of being."
This is kinda like Christ's love for the church...isnt it? Hi, I dont know who you are, or what you believe, and im sorry if I offend you at all in what im about to say, but the Truth does tend to offend many, and I will try and speak the Truth. Why you got chosen,I have no idea....perhaps it was the fact you were the first blog I came across that wasnt adds...
Its interesting that love in America seems to be more about what the other person can do for me, rather than what can I do for them...that its full of jeleousy rather than sacrifice.
You say you dont know what love looks like, but yet in your blog you describe it pretty well. If you want a clear defenition of love a good place to look would be 1 Corinthians chapter 13, which says: Love suffers long, is kind, does not envy, is not filled with pride, is not rude, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked to anger, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the Truth. Love bears all things, believs all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love Never Fails.
That is the type of love America is lacking. Thankyou for your time and post. I enjoyed reading it!
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