A Verb. According to Webster. A verb? Whatever that means. An action word? So it’s something that we do? Webster also says it’s a noun. Person, place or thing? So we can touch it? Is love a feeling or an emotion? If love is a feeling how would you describe the pain of a divorce, death or a break-up? It is an emotion. Love can be platonic, monogamous, romantic, religious or familial.
Some of us have no clue. Not even an inkling into the meaning of love. As elusive as it may seem to some, as difficult to others to describe or define the deep waters of emotions, love is the one thing required for all existence. We all need it to thrive, to survive and surpass the storms, to navigate us through the rough waters of our lives. And to lull us into a state of surrender, a blanket of peace and rest when the storms have finally passed.
Can it be measured? Weighed? Compared? Taken away from us? Or withheld as a punishment? Can love be used as a tool…or a weapon?
Love can hold those in our present hostage to the pains of our past. And the beauty of her healing touch has the incredible ability to free us from our self imposed prisons, ease the pains, heal the scars, and nurse the wounds we hold as sacred jewels guarding the chambers of our hearts.
Love can hold those in your present hostage to the pains of our past. And Sometimes we can become cynical and adopt the “Love Stinks” attitude. We fall in and out of love, love chocolate, our family, friends, favorite foods, our pets, our careers, our music, vehicles, favorite television shows, etc..Love is like the minutes of time, always moving, always turning, and running 24 hours a day without fail.
Love is synonymous with the ocean in all her splendor. Like the tides of the ocean, the ebbs & flows, the very depths that run so deep no one could ever touch the bottom. No one even knows for certain how deep she runs. No ones knows what exists at the very bottom of her existence. We can only imagine. We can only explore the depths to whatever levels we are comfortable with. We can only go so far down, so far into the deep waters until our discomfort pulls us back to the surface for air.
But to imagine that the further we explore, the deeper we breathe into love, the more willing we are to open ourselves up….the more we trust, the deeper she will take us into the safety of her bosom. The deeper we go into the dark waters, with love as our guide, as our compass, the more alive we become, the brighter the light we will discover. The tastes, the depths, the delicious aromas, the sweetness we experience will heighten and open to us and welcome us into the softest and most seductive side of heaven.
A permanent state of grace. A perfect blend of the Masculine & the Feminine energies. We are created to dance in synchronicity with love and allow the diversity of life to flow with joy as our life partner and soul mate.
We make love, feel the love, share the love, and show the love. Another very important side of love is the love that we keep hidden, the love we choose to withhold as to punish others who may have intentionally, unintentionally or inadvertently pissed us off or hurt us in some way. Love can be a game of hide and seek, sink or swim, show & tell or closed off like a flower bud refusing to bloom and share the fragrance of her beauty and the many taste of her divine colors.
So in answer to the question, what is love? Love is a an emotion. A connection. A connection between two or more hearts. A complete state of being. There is nothing that a baby does when placed in our arms for the very first time. Nothing in particular or specific that would warrant an earning of our love. They are not giving us anything other than themselves….
The innocence, the vulnerability, the trust and the surrender that there is something above them even greater than themselves. They no nothing more than that. Love in its entirety is a state of being. In that precious state, and as any one who has ever held a newborn baby has experienced first hand, there is a complete surrender, a connection of the heavens and the earth, and in an instant, a captured and frozen moment in time that love becomes. Love, is. And from the very first moment, love, will always be.
