Honey, I love you...
...will you please please smile?

Fresh back from a Bruxy Davey talk on Making love. It was affirmative on my stand that Love is a choice, a verb.

�If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge if I have a faith that can move mountains but have not love, I am nothing�
~ 1 Corinthians 13:2

We spend our lives being permeated with notions of love; from the tender delicate love of a mother to the raging passion of an illicit love affair to the nationalistic pride in patriots have for their motherland. We can�t deny that life encompasses love or some aspects of it and 1 Corinthians here displays the extent of the role Love plays in a Christian life that without love, there can be no Christian. But the love that is spoken of in this passage isn�t quite the raging emotion that the world advocates; rather it is the conscious choice of the Christian to give his life to Christ and to choose to be patient, to be kind, to choose not to envy, to boast nor to be proud. One does not need to necessarily like a particular individual in order to Love him, �to like� would entail a personal human preference (She liked coffee and I liked tea, which is why we couldn�t agree.) whilst �Love� on the other hand means putting aside all that, and letting God reveal Himself to the world, through you.
~ UBC/U Vic Navigators Devotions, Jan 2004 Retreat.

Now we've tackled what love looks like, feels like, and how it works within human relationships.

But what IS love?

God is Love.
~1 John 4:16

Suddenly, it all makes perfect sense.
And with grace, power and vulnerablity, I can honestly say "I love you."

It's all so beautiful.