Love.

So, Emily inspired me a week ago to write about love because, to her, it's "just a stupid emotion." Now, I can admit that is partially true. Love is an emotion. But it's not just an emotion. You should all know that love is much more than that. There are so many different ways to look and it, and it comes in so many forms that it makes it nearly impossible to define. But the greatest thing about an emotion without a true definition is that it causes it to become limitless. Love is forever reaching, continually changing, constantly in motion, and always in your heart and the heart of others at the exact same time. The coolest thing in the world to me about love is the fact that it's so incredibly amazing that it will never leave you. Love will never give up on you, it will never allow you to lose sight of what really matters...All you have to do is trust in it, and you won't have to worry about anything else. No matter how lost or alone or sad you feel, love is going to be there. You may fall out of love with someone, or maybe you'll lose a friend that doesn't love you like you thought they did, but that doesn't mean that love ever left you. It still exists inside and around you, and nobody can ever take it away from you. Love is not just an emotion, it is the emotion. It is the most important.

1 Corinthians 13 is one of my most favorite chapters in the entire Bible. I'm just going to put the whole thing in here, it's just that good.

(1) If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (2) If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing. (3) If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.

(4) Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud (5)or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. (6) It does not rejoice about injustice, but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. (7) Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

(8) Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! (9) Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! (10) But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.

(11) When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. (12) Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity . All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

(13) Three things will last forever- faith, hope, and love- and the greatest of these is love.



How could you NOT love that chapter? Yeah, I know it's THAT good. :)

And guess what else? God is love. So that makes this whole thing like 10 billion times better.
What are your thoughts on love?