Love is a Verb: Love is Also…
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Patience is said to be a virtue. Kindness an attribute. Humility a learned gift bestowed upon a burdened yet quiet soul. These three things are all a part of the love picture. They are so hard sometimes. We struggle to be kind to those who are unkind. Patience is something we chase when we are fed up. Humility can be easily forgotten when we are successful. Yet these are all necessary to reflect love.
Envy is hard for all of us- we see people doing things we would like to do, having things we want to have. It brings us to the edge of coveting which is a dangerous place to live. Boasting about these things we once coveted (upon our acquiring them) is even more dangerous. These will cause a ripple effect and before you know it, you have risen high only to fall far and hit hard.
Love is a Verb: Acronyms and Impact
Have you ever heard a slogan or impactful string of words which lose their luster over time? There seem to be a lot of these in our culture. Between marketing and the information highway expanding to all over the earth, it is hard to have a day without hearing one. So what happens when it stops being impactful? Someone dreams up a new one, and the process starts over again.
Here are a few examples:
**Where’s the beef?
**WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do)
**You deserve a break today.
**LOL (laugh out loud)
Love is a Verb
Love is always going to win.
This seems to be the mantra many people are adopting for their personal beliefs, regardless of what they are. Believe it or not, it’s truth. Just not always in the way we want.
The concept of love has always stood the test of time. We have seen it historically in the lives of many who have searched for someone they lost, only to be reunited with them once they quit looking. We have witnessed supernatural love- when a mom lifts a car off her children in a freak accident. There is love based on feelings- that twitter-pated junior-high butterfly- effect at the first attraction to someone we connect with. There is love based on the universal acceptance of harmony and peace. Love has been the representative of all the things we believe in, even twisted to suit our own purposes.
Actual pure unadulterated original Love- it’s not a feeling at all.
Love is an act- it’s a verb.
Eternal Perspective or Devils Advocate?
Is our perspective eternal?
In the grand scheme of things, every decision we make has a purpose- an end goal. If, as humans, we are just floating around on this earth bumping into one another, acquiring things for no reason, then why do we fight so hard for the things we believe in?
What is the reason we do what we do?
