Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Many waters cannot quench love!

How long will love last?   Even when we throw it away in society, under the legal term of divorce, is love still there, lingering deep in the recesses of the heart?   If two are brought back together by some great big occurrence, is there still a bond?   God talks a lot about everlasting love, and longsuffering love, and love never failing.   I think instead of the fairy tales and romantic comedies being so flawed, it is perhaps, society that thinks those are flawed.   We can throw away a relationship, and even a marriage, but the lingering remains of love, those embedded in our hearts, can be tugged at many years later, and we find then, that the bonds of love run deeper than society gives them credit for.   A judge can sign a decree and declare a marriage over, in the eyes of the law, but no one can stop the bond that marriage created from being there.  
What can affect love?  Conflict, stubborn ways, selfishness, criticism, neglect, lack of fun, too much stress, and much more.    However, after all of that has come and gone and the years pass, if one has a chance to talk to that person who once held one's heartstrings, one will find that there is still a bond.    If that bond is still there after affairs, enormous stress, neglect, etc, then what would happen if we behaved like it would always be there in the first place?   What if our throw away society trended towards being GREEN in relationships?   We believe in recycling glass, paper, and plastic and we don't realize that the most powerful force in the universe cannot be re-harnessed?  The problem is we view love as needing to be constant.   We view it that if the good feelings seem gone, that they are forever gone.  We view it that if it has been war tattered by all the world can throw at it, that it is demolished for good.   Instead, out of the ashes, beauty of love rises.   Love cannot be quenched by many waters.   It lies there dormant, waiting for human beings in their haughtiness, to realize that they cannot control this force of nature that exceeds all human understanding, and that this deep bond of love has been dwelling in the secret most parts of the hearts, and that years, later, sometimes decades later, it comes back as if it had never been gone.   This power, this love so strong that most adversity can harm it but not destroy it, is what the world indeed needs now.   Love for our spouse that won't just give up bc the feelings have ebbed, love for our wayward child, love for our neighbor, love for our fellow man.   This love when put into action or just waited on, will come back and will overcome obstacles to bring good out of bad.   Love is a brighter, lighter, hope-filled force that can overcome disasters of all kinds.   We, as the human race, have to know that though first.   We must respect this bond and know that though we may throw it aside acting like we can extricate ourselves from it, that it is a force far beyond our knowledge, and when we least expect it, it will come back around like a boomerang hurled into space.   Love bears all things, endures all things, and love never fails.   Humans, we fail often.   But love, the force of all that is good in the universe, it will not fail.   Wait on it long enough, and it shows it has sustained all and that it still exists.   So, take comfort that once loved, always loved to some degree.   We may move on to other relationships, but binding ties of love remain and will stay to prove the test of time.   Now, let us all go out today knowing the love we show and sow will matter and remain.   Don't accept the new way of viewing love as old-fashioned and meaningless.   Love was and is and is to come and it will NOT be discarded, no matter what humans may do or say.  Faith, hope and love abide, but the greatest of these IS L-O-V-E.  
Go love today! 
L