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What does it have to do with anything?

According to the Word, the first two commandments tell us that first we must love Him with everything we are and then we must love our neighbors as we love ourselves and in doing these two things we are following His commandments. Love is an action word and for me the fact of the matter is is that actions speak louder than words. Therefore showing has been my main method of letting a person know that I love them. It has been bought to my attention that actions fall short without the words. This is really a revelation in my eyes.

So what is love? There have been and still are people that ruminate over this question. What is love? I have wondered if you can truly love an inanimate object because you aren't able to get any feelings back from it. I have said and most people say that they love things that can't love them back; I love these shoes, I love this movie, I love this song. If love is a feeling it's something that makes your spirit smile and gives you joy and makes you feel good then the possibility of loving an inanimate object is possible because there have been pleanty of songs that helped my heart sing a song of joy. There have been plenty of movies that give me a good feeling and shoes that once I put them on I have a good feeling. So in the sense of good feelings I have loved something that couldn't love me back but it could give me a happy, joyous feeling. This is fine but what about the love that is between two people?

Well, love that is between people is as complicated as anything else. I have felt like I loved a person that didn't love me back. I have lived a lot of my life feeling as though I had tons of love for people that didn't love me. This love is worse than feeling love for an inanimate object because the object just doesn't have the capacity to show you any love but another person should have that capacity. My realization is that even though someone should have the capacity to show love it doesn't mean that they do have it. Not realizing that led me towards choices in my life that made things harder on me. I didn't feel good enough to be truly loved for a very long time. I am a good person and even if I was not a good person I would still be worthy of receiving love because I am. Now what about a good love? What is love? Love does a lot and it doesn't do a lot also.

Love doesn't hurt people. People that you love can be hurtful but that hurt isn't coming out of love it is coming out a place that doesn't know love. Love doesn't show-off and boast. Love doesn't act out. Love doesn't lie. Love doesn't kill. Love does make you feel good. Love gives you a purpose. Love does help you to dream. Love shows you what is right and what needs to be corrected. Love gives life and hope. Love is a many splendor thing. Love is hard but not impossible.

Love is what makes the world spin. Love has everything to do with everything.

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