Where love is
The wings of love represented by God secure the beauty that someone who loves possesses in his heart. The Master protects one who loves rightly as he who loves knows God. Love and God is synonymous. Both are in the realm of intimacy.
Without God, things are void. Without love, the heart is empty. It is important to love: your fellowmen, your neighbors, and yourself, and above all, God. With such assurance from them, you will be inspired to live.
To love and be in despair is better than to have not loved at all. Love suffers long, and is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, does not seek its own interest, it is not quick tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrong doing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things (1 Corinthians 13:4-7).
It is good to be inspired and inspire someone, and it’s good to be healthy with our relationship with our neighbors. It is a miracle if by love you can be healed. God heals the brokenhearted, and he makes their compassion for others complete and makes one feel complete.
To be loved is to receive favor from God or from others, doing similar favor to them too, remembering and is being remembered. Intimacy is to think of someone and yearn to be in his or her thoughts and in his or her heart. Don’t forget that God is an intimate person. One who loves like the way God loves him sticks even through pain and difficulties. Even if you stumble and fall, God is there to carry you.
Don’t be tricked by a relationship that is not willing to sacrifice and is without humility. It is important to give as to receive. It is important to have an adult love that longs for the happiness of the other even to the extent of offering one’s life. Such love of one would not hesitate preferring other’s welfare thinking less of his gain.
Real love is to seek and find out what would catch other’s interest. Love seeks that which is perfect. Love never fails. If there be prophesies, these will be brought to nothing; if there be tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away, knowledge and prophecy.
We shall fully know as we have had tried to know. Faith, hope and love remain, these three; but the greatest among these is love (1 Cor. 13:8-10, 12). Pursue love then and strive eagerly for spiritual gifts, above all that you are able to prophesy (1 Cor. 14:1).
Let us love one another. And as the silly minded ones say, love another person. Let us not forget that God is love. Where love is, God is there, as in the poem, ‘Mother and Child.’
- Jojo I. Nartatez
