Love is first, last and everywhere in between. Love is our business, our pleasure, our arts and sciences, our dream and reality. If we do not have enough love we usually look for more. If we think we have less love now than we did before we go looking for where we lost it.
Sometimes we get bitter and disillusioned. But disillusionment is not really about love; it is about our illusions of love. The bitterness is always about the illusions. But love is not an illusion; love is the reality. Illusions are images which draw on parts and pieces of reality but are put together in a distorted way. Love without illusions is always there but we don’t always see it.
God is love but we don’t always see Him.
What does it means to say that God is love? I don’t know exactly. Does it mean God is equal to love or love is equal to God? Does it mean God is full of love or love is full of God? I don’t know exactly.
I do know that love is more than we think it is, as God is more than we think He is.
Love is more important than we think it is. I think love is all-important. I think it is infinitely important. Once I heard Mark Gershmel sing a song called “Love is Everything.” It touched me deeply. I don’t even remember any of the words but that one phrase—that’s enough.
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Hello Joe
Love your site(s). You always do such good work. I liked the entry about paying the water bill and the pictures of the basement.
I like this also:
“If we think we have less love now than we did before we go looking for where we lost it.”
Here is something I wrote in my journal a long time ago: “Love doesn’t die, but sometimes it does go someplace where it’s wanted.”
Keep up the good work.
JMc