I Love You.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

What does it mean to love someone purely? the word 'Love' gets tossed around so flippantly in today's culture and I have been thinking a lot about whether we really know what we are talking about, whether I really mean it when I say I love someone... does it depend on how they make you feel? does it depend on your own agenda for that person? does it depend on whether they hurt you or not? If they disappoint you, betray you? Is it really just all about you?...

"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 no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. " 1 C0r. 13:4-7

Always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love is making some one's highest good your greatest goal. Loving them no matter what. wanting the best for them even if the best for them isn't the 'best' for you... Even if it breaks your heart a little. God wants us to love one another so His grace is in our decision to do so I believe.

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa

So when I say 'I love you.' it's a promise that I will do my best to serve you, believe in you, want the best in and for you, and act unselfishly towards you in all things... even if you aren't loving me back, even if your not around... I'll take care of you.