Guest guest Posted March 28, 2009 Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 I am thinking a lot about this love thing. How to love the ME child. How to love myself. Maybe the reason it's so hard for me to get a grip on it is because I may not COMPREHEND what love is. And that doesn't make it any less real; it's just that I simply may not know what it is. I think most of a lot of us may be in that camp. I know what it is NOT. It is not needing or wanting. Or living up to anything. Not about expectations or promises. Not about giving 10% or until it hurts. It is not about DOING, even. I thought for a long time that it was about doing. I was told that love is a verb, which is meant to say that it IS more about doing and less about emotion. Love is action. And, on the surface, that makes a lot of sense. When you dig deeper, you realize, like a slap in the face, that it is really not about doing, either. What if love were about an experience. What if you became so immersed in it that you couldn't separate reality from it. What if it's not about getting or giving. What if it is about BEING .. being love. When I said that I think God is Love, I don't think I fully realized the magnitude of the statement. This thinking stems from challenging me to LOVE MY CHILD. He asked, "Will you love her?" Not CAN you, COULD you, but WILL you. I'm still thinking about it but somehow think I am on the right path by first trying to grasp what LOVE is. And what it is NOT. Helena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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