charity

There are at least two types of love. There will be some people you love because of what you get from them: what they give you, the way they make you feel. This is perhaps the majority of love, which drives much of love so unstable. A person’s capacity to give is inconstant and changing. Your response to what you are given is also unpredictable and evolving. So if you’re chasing a feeling, you’ll always be chasing. No feeling is ever constant. If love is dependent on this, it too becomes inconstant and changing. And just like everything in this world, the more you chase it, the more it will run away from you. But, once in a while, people enter the life you love, not for what they give you, but for what they are. The beauty in them reflects the Creator, so you love them. It isn’t about what you’re getting but what you can give. This is unselfish love. This second type of love is the rarest. And if it is based in, and not competing with, the love of God, it will also bring about the most joy. To love in any other way is to need, to be dependent, to have expectations, all the ingredients for misery and disappointment. So for all those, who have spent their life seeking, know that purity of anything is found at the source. If it is love that you desire, seek it through God. Once you see everything beautiful as only a reflection of God’s beauty, you will learn to love correctly amen