Dedicated to my wonderful family and friends…

I’ve been thinking about when I say that I love someone.  What do I mean by that?  Why do I love them?  What if they don’t love me back?  What is love?   

Well...I’ll tell you what….I believe love is definitely not a feeling!  Feelings are fleeting you see.  One day we feel good.  The next we feel bad.  If love were a feeling, then love would never last. 

No….I believe that love is a choice!  A choice, you ask? Yes, a choice.  Just like obeying the law is a choice.  If you choose to break the law then you’ll suffer the consequences of it.  You choose what speed to drive your car.  Cars aren’t made with automatic mph speed controllers that slow you down if you go past the limit.  (Though that would be a very advanced technology)!   

It doesn’t mean that there is no law.  We are free to decide what speed to go, but we know that if we do right, we will save ourselves the stresses of tickets and cops and well accidents.   

See, God gives us a commandment to love each other.  Notice that in every time he says in the scriptures, he is commanding us to do it.  It is our choice to choose to obey it or not to.  Just the same; just because there are commandments doesn’t mean that we always end up doing as we are told.  I mean we are human so we make mistakes.  However, I feel that this world would be better off if everyone did as commanded.   

Furthermore, 1 Corinthians 13;4-13, speak of what the attributes of love are.  I couldn’t say this better myself!  Please read: 

⁴Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. ⁶It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

⁸Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages^[c] and special knowledge will all disappear. ⁹Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! ¹⁰But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.

¹¹It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. ¹²Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.^[d] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.

¹³There are three things that will endure--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love.

If you wrong me or if I wrong you -and chances are I might sometime in my life time let you down though I try not to-, choosing to love is what makes it easier to choose to forgive.  Therefore, if I ever say I love you, not only will I mean it, but you can better believe that as hard as it might be for me to keep this commandment (and I’m surely not going to let it slide easily), I will never cease to love you.

Lyssie