What is love?
Tacky on a day like today? Perhaps. I just know that I feel so grateful in a way that I feel demands that I express it.. I feel like opportunities, and people in my life are all connected to that word. Either God sent them to me as one more reminder of love, or people have chosen to spend that valuable commodity on someone like me. :)
I thank heaven--I thank Jesus Christ--for that.
I had a teacher, Newell Dayley, teach me something that I believe is so applicable to the doctrine of love/Charity. In our collaborative class we were all weighted with the responsibility of producing quality music to the panel--ourselves. The panel would then review and give suggestions on the material. (A very sensitive process.) If a person gave their all, they risked failing, succeeding, or falling short and being asked to give even more than they thought they could.
It could only be evaded by choosing not to give your all.
I don’t want to spell out the parallels. I’ll let you work that one out for yourself. :) I’ll only offer the thought to look beyond interpersonal relationships (romantic and plutonic) to the eternal relationships (family and expiatory).
I love many people in my life. I love many things. But it all began with being loved. There was no promise that I would return that love: this is the miracle of it being given.
Learning how to give freely, stretching ourselves to search for more, trusting that “all” is enough, is love in action.
