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“A world without love is a dangerous place.”  Helen Fisher

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by Jennifer Knapp

say won’t you say
say that you love me
with love, ever, love
love everlasting
all my devotion put into motion by you

Verse 1:
every morning I
have a chance to rise and
give my all
but every afternoon i find i have only wasted time
in light of your awe
isn’t love amazing
i forgot how to speak
knowing you are near and
i am finally free

Verse 2:
my eyes fear to close
this reckless letting go is
hard to bear
on the edge of all i need
still i cling to what i see
and what have i there?
bred my own disaster
who have i to blame?
when all i need is waiting
to be fanned to flame

Bridge:
yeah, i opened up my eyes
to see you standing there
o, i can barely breath
o, i can hardly bare
all the love i feel for you inside
i hope you feel it now

iamblessed:

Jim Halpert (via tunaeverynight) (via kouks)

awwwww!

This isn’t my attempt to disprove or discount love as a feeling— I know what that feels like, and as much as I’d hate to admit its genuineness, I must.  But as possible as it is to “fall in love”, “be in love”, “catch feelings” for someone, how often than not do we soon realize that this feeling is not enough?

“Love is a choice.” — Gary Chapman, author of, The Five Love Languages

At the end of the day, feelings don’t last and they won’t.  They change according to circumstances, your perspective on things, etc.  They are undependable.  So you really must ask yourself, “Am I willing to choose to love?”

So, really, love is a choice.  And when you choose to show someone or something unconditional love, you are choosing to commit to loving this person or this thing.  I believe people have the ability to unconditionally love someone or something (and some of you may disagree with this point — I know the me even a year ago would have disagreed).  Time and time again, I hear, and have written, that God is the only one capable of showing unconditional love.  I think that is certainly not true.  We, as human beings, have the ability to choose to commit to loving someone (not the feeling love, but the action love) no matter what the response we get is — and that, my friends, is what I define as unconditional love.  It is the care you have for someone/something, even when it is not reciprocated back to you.

1 Corinthians 13. Many of us have heard this chapter quoted in wedding vows, “A Walk to Remember”, between lovebirds, etc. etc.  But that really takes away from the point of the whole passage.  Context: Paul, apostle, writing to Corinthian (read: rude, boastful) church.  He names all these characteristics of love to juxtapose it to theirs.  This passage was never meant to give feelings of warmness like it does when Landon reads them to Jamie, or the feelings you probably got when you heard them from someone who has feelings of love for you.  I’m not trying to discount the power of these words.  But the purpose was for these characteristics to point to God, the one who first loved us.  And in that love we have hope, because God chose to commit to us.  He knew us even before we were made, chose to save and to love us even when he knew we’d turn against him.  This is our God.  This is love.