Love. So much meaning in such a small, four letter word.
You can find quotes about it all over the internet, romance books are written about it, people sing about it.
But what is it?
"A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person."
Yes, that's very true, but it's so much more than that.
Love isn't just something you feel, it's a way that you act, a way that you live.
Love is watching your younger siblings grow up and wondering just what they're going to be one day.
Love is holding your best friend's baby sister, and realizing how much you can love a creature that isn't even your own.
Love is naming people as your brothers or sisters when you already have too many, but you just love them so much it's impossible to see them as anything else.
Love is sacrificing your free time to be with a father who is schizophrenic and trusts you more than anyone else.
Love is giving your last twenty bucks to a poor woman with three kids that she can barely afford to feed.
Love is volunteering at a daycare and falling completely in love with one baby boy, and feeling your heart break because his mother's so poor she can hardly afford to feed him.
Love is being eighteen-years-old with a baby-mama that doesn't want you around and feeling your heart shatter because of that.
Love is wishing you could hold said eighteen-year-old because you can only imagine how bad they must be hurting.
Love is simply being there for someone, listening to what they have to say, holding them as they cry, and wiping away their tears.
Love is so much more than a four letter word.
Love is an action, a way to live.
Love everyone, especially your enemies.
Remember:
"Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong doing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."
-- 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8a.
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