Love

Love-maybe if we could create some tangible, concrete definition, we would understand it. But I think its mystery is what defines it.

Love is many things but really its just crazy. If some robotic or alien species discovered us, I think they would be confused. They would watch our romantic comedies and thinkg, "That human just ran all over the country for something you can't see or touch...all in hopes of having that feeling returned...you guys are nuts!!!!"

If you think about God's love...your brain continues to explode! God doesn't need us but he desires us. I'm pretty sure Jesus, Father, and Spirit did alright without us. But God WANTED us. He said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

I think if we fully understood love it wouldn't be love. The irrationality and randomness is what makes it love. A man can say of his wife, "I love this, this, and this about you," but what love is can be difficult to define...

...unless you look at what God says.

I Corinthians 13-only one of the most famous passages of Scripture for Christians and non Christians alike. In 13 verses, Paul captures the essence of love.

Patient.

Kind.

Not insistent.

But I think my favorite part is this: "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. 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."

Being loved means being known. We love someone in spite of their crap, skeletons, and shadows that follow them-in fact, we embrace these things.

I've been reading C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves and I've realized how complex love is. I don't love my roommates in the same way I love my brother. I don't love Kasi Svoboda the same way I love Andrea Lawrence. Love is meant to be felt, expressed, experienced in a multitude of ways.

And true love is God. True loves is that moment of worship, silence, or meditation when we feel His love for us. True love is known when we are fully known. True love is found when two people, a group of friends, or a family don't have to say, "You're messed up...but I accept and embrace that."

True love is found in moments of truth-those tiny glimpses of God's awesomeness...