On Love...

"Loving people doesn't translate to being an astronaut very easily."

Growing up everyone always asks you, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Most of the time I always said I didn't know, and would then go ask my family what I would be good at. I did this because I didn't see myself at being very good at many things that could be a transferable to a tangible career in the eyes of a child. I did know that I loved people a lot, but loving people doesn't translate to being an astronaut very easily. 

As I grew up, that never really changed. In fact, I think I realized that love is, in some ways, the "key" to life. It permeates all things that are in their correct form. It solves all problems, not in an actualized sense, but it solves the problem of a problem being a problem; a poor man is suddenly not poor when he has love; he realizes love has more riches than any bank could hold in dollar equivalent. Love brings us together, heals our wounds. Every one loves their true friends. What if every one loved everyone? Would not everyone be a friend?

God is love. God solves all of our problems, regardless of if they are truly solved to our liking or not. If we love God, God is our friend. Who doesn't want to talk to their true friends? Does not prayer make sense if we love God? And if we are mad at God, doesn't that still make sense? A man yells at his friend when he is angry at the friend, but a man is just a man, yet he endures the anger if the love is true, and they are made closer through the conflict and resolution. How much more can an all-powerful God take your anger? Sadness? God is love. He takes all the abuse we give to Him because He loves us.

This is the love we are to have:

"Love is patient and 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 wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

All the cliche songs are right; love is all the world needs! It is the misunderstanding of love that demeans that truth. Understand what love is and show it, that is our purpose in life. 

- Jay C.