What is Love?

What is love? Why do we strive so hard to find it? Why does it feel like in one moment it will last forever and in the next it can vanish in an instant? Why does it embolden us, but at the same time bring us to our knees?  How can we decide that were in love, but at the same time believe that there is the one. How is it that love can be tough and gentle? How is it that love at it's beginning can be the greatest motivator and at it's end life's necrosis.  Why can love be sustenance and yet be addictive or form dependence?  Why can love reveal are hearts, but cloud our judgements?  Why will we bargain for it when it can be given so freely?

Love is the way it is because it is the very definition of living. It cannot be understood in all its facets, because it has no set form only a function. Its dwelling place is not on this earth, but with the Father.  Its etherness only rationalized for our partial understanding.   Love is the mingling of life lines, its taking a risk into the absurd, delving below the surface of the mind into the furthest fathoms of the soul.  It is a gift from God, it is the ability for souls to touch, become intertwined, a connection that is not limited by space and time.  And hence it's destructiveness, God is the perfect giver of love, but he gave imperfect humans the ability to.  God intertwines with the soul, transforming it, restoring it, filling it with the beauty of life as envisioned.  At times humans can do the same, but the intertwining of the souls doesn't work perfectly, because humans lack a perfect understanding of who the person is and what love is.  And with that, as much as the intwining process feels like paradise, the unthreading goes beyond torture.

So what's the purpose? If we can't love perfectly, why love at all? If we can fight with each other, break-up, hurt, and wound each other using love, why pursue it?  The answer resides in God, for when God's love resides in us, we are touched by God, grafted to him, and though at times we may wish to unravel from him, push and tear away, he never lets us go. And through that connection with God, we can use Love to connect with others and bring them to that everlasting love in God.

Many of my friends are in the throws of Love, both its divine and its corporeal.  May God watch over them, raining down blessings and splender.  Through them I am blessed.