Love

The word love has been used to describe all kinds of quite different things, from quiet devotion to lust at first sight. There’s sexual and there’s mother love. There’s brotherly love and married love. There’s religious love and there’s romantic love.

Presently, different people experience love for many wrong reasons. Love is frequently portrayed as a feeling for somebody of the opposite sex to achieve happiness. At other times, love is portrayed as pleasure, a philosophy characterized by the belief that maximization of pleasure accompanied by the minimization of pain is the fundamental moral principle of human life. It is long believed that romantic love is the sole sound basis for marriage.

Love is a mysterious visitation, which comes out of nowhere. It so important that you must give up everything else for it…A man is justified in giving up his wife…A woman is justified in abandoning her home and even her children because of love and…even a king is justified in surrendering his throne for it. It may go as expectedly as it come, and there is nothing you can do about that, either. It is not, in any way, subject to human control. For some, love come to mean engaging in the sexual act. This seduction leaves out values such as fidelity, exclusiveness, dependability, stability, childbearing, founding of a family, and love of children.

Genuine love must eminently human, directed from one person to another by an affection rooted in the will, and embracing the good of the whole person. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hope and always perseveres.