Simply Love

What is love? I think we all ask ourselves this sometime in our life. Jennifer Lopez and Haddaway asked it “What is love?” I have the answer. The answer is to stop asking yourself. Love does not exist on earth. Don’t argue. Look around you. There is war and people killing each other. Black Eyed Peas asked it, “Where is the love?” To answer that specific question we must get rid of this lowercase idea of love, you have to change the “L” to a capitol: Love. Love is Lord. Love sent his only Son to come and show us Love. He gave us Love but because this is a power only He knows, and we as humans are certainly not Him, we cannot possibly be capable of love. We don’t even know what that entails. We don’t know what it means to die on the cross from someone. We don’t know what it means to be beaten and spit on. We don’t know what it is to suffer. We don’t know what love is and we cannot even begin to try and understand it. Love is unexplainable. Love is God.

We as people, have a very diluted idea of what love is. We forget the example our Savior has set for us. Yet we somehow thing when we love someone we have sex or even worse that when we have sex we are in love. Oh dear goodness. I mean who hasn’t said “When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much…” No, no, no. Do I think sex is bad or wrong? No. I think it is lovely to have kids, but understand that is not a product of your love, it is a product of Love. Are you starting to understand what I am saying?

Love is not love. Though I suppose I’ll give you the worldly definition of love: caring for someone, wanting nothing else but that other person, very strong feelings for someone. So really what the world has done has taken the work Love and made it love to use as a short cut to saying, “I really like you a lot.” See. No love, just like.

Love is eternal. The world is not eternal and neither is our body. So again, if our bodies are not eternal, our bodies cannot love, which means sex is not equal to love in any way at all, because we need our bodies to have sex.

Using the world definition of love, I guess I believe in that. I do believe there is love between a mother and child, between a sister and brother, and between friends. As far as people saying, “I’m in love with my boyfriend/husband. We are total soul mates.” I think is a lie. Love is not that. You can’t fall in love. Love just doesn’t work that way. If it did then why do people seem to, quote, “fall out of love.” Honey, what goes up must come down, not the other way around.

Do I think it is possible for a couple to stay together until death? Yes. Do I think this is because of love. Not really. I believe after awhile people get used to being together and they have been together so long, why change that now? It’s easier to stay together. I mean who wants to go through the hassle of divorce? No one. You have to deal with all of those papers and money and family. No one would want to go through that and kudos to those who do.

I don't want to be negative, but I'm just looking at reality. Look around and you might just find that you agree that love does not exist. It just can't in this world. That was a given since the first days of life with Adam and Eve.