"I want to love and be loved,"-we frequently say and think that, mainly because we are well aware that love is the most precious experience we humans can ever know.
But we also know that our "love" desire can fail us. We may think we have found it, then rudely (and painfully) we discover that what we thought was love was not that at all, far from it.
Mainly, our problem with "love" is that we sometimes think of it in very narrow terms; when it comes our way, WE will know it and WE will claim it; thus, we are unable to love anywhere and everywhere.
True love is not restrictive. It knows no boundaries. True love loves everybody, all living things, indeed, everything about God's marvelous world; even the snakes have a loving purpose, as Genesis 1 declares for us.
We limit our love. Yes, we do. The one we love and are loved by, so we think, will be of the same color, speak the same language, and hold to the same (or similar) religious beliefs. So it is, we limit and contradict love's true nature.
By contrast, true love does not work that self-centered way; true love is always active and searching to love the entirety of creation.
Therefore, we should not be surprised, though we often are, when we learn of persons who have many loves in a vast number of places. They know true love.
The two who passed by the man who had been beaten and robbed were, of course, looking for love; however, they failed to see that the wounded man offered them the opportunity to love truly. No, they were on their way to find love somewhere else. The Good Samaritan was a man of love
Also, when we know true love we will not beve we will not be surprised when love finds us. That's its nature. Forever active; and, indeed, we are astounded when love finds us. That's its nature. Forever active; and, yes, in search of you and me, for our very personhoods have made us worth loving.
True love is not as well known as we often think. We may even believe we see it in others but not in us, when the reality is, the "others" may also know little or nothing about it; for they are searching for pleasure and self-gratification of the fake love kind. True love never ceases, nor does it set limits on
those it loves.
If you are not happy, if you are lonely and think that maybe you're not worth loving. love has not failed you; you have failed to love.
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