Love and the like

In love there are so many aspects. It is important to look at each before pursing why it is that we feel the way we do. The main four types of love I would like to talk about are love they neighbor, love thy family, love they lover, and love they self. These four parts of love are needed in everyday life to make this world a better place. As it is said in the bible, "Love each other, as I have loved you." (John 13:34)

When looking at the first form of love, love thy neighbor, it is important to watch out for the feelings that lie in the middle. Loving thy neighbor is like loving your friends AND your enimies. It is extremely hard for human beings to grasp the concept of loving our enemies. Many of us put our feelings in the way of that. Many of us don't believe that God is talking to us when he says love thine enemy. Yet, for those that are able to do so, or have already been doing so, it is important to continue to work on it. I believe this is one thing that may not be a reaction for most anyone. For example, if some one says a hurtful thing, most do not automatically say thjey love that person. Most are willing to say they are hurt or distrought, but not "I love you." It is important to loook at this aspect of our lives with the utmost superiority. God loves us all, even when we sin, so why is it that we find it so hard to love each other?



The second important part of love to look at is love thy family. It is important to look at this idea because even though many of us do, whether our parents are together or not, whether our siblings are close or not; it can be so easy to take this love for granted. For me, this love has been there ever since I can remember, which is why it seems so easy to take it for granted. We as humans tend to take things for granted when they are readily or always available. Yet, we should grow more aware as an individual and as a whole family that there are no guarantees in the game of life. We are not sure what God has in store for us, so we do not know what kind of trouble there may be ahead. So, as the old saying goes, we must live everyday as it were our last. With this, it is more probable that we will be more focused on loving our family, perhaps talking to them more, becuase there are so many things we want to tell them. If our family is so important, which it seems to be, then why do we continually take that love for granted?



The third type of love is the love of thine spouse or lover. As briefly as possible, it is important to vocer this extremely heart wrenching form of love. There have been many hear breaks in the past, from man to woman, man to man, woman to man, and woman to woman. (Homosexual beliefs play no part here.) It is important to understand that God has a purpose for all of us. As unfortunate as it may seem, not everyone is destined to be loved as a spouse. Many find trouble in this and see it as a burden, but to truly understand God, one must realize how he works. he knows how we feel, he knows what we think, but that does not mean he can stop us or control us from doing so. He gave us free will to let us make our own choices, sinning just happens, because none of us are perfect. But to really love a spouse, I would think that one would want to feel that love even more in treturn. I have never been married, I have never been in love (although I have contemplated it), but I do think that love is pretty universal (in its basic principles), with no boundries. It makes sense when looking at the human person's psychy that they would want and desire love in return, in order to love whole heartedly. -This form of love has endlesss discussion, and seeing as I will likely write about it in future blogs, I shall end with this- If God put us on the earth to love endlessly, to our friends and foes, our neighbors and relatives, why did he make it so hard to find the one for us to spend the rest of our lives with?



Lastly, it is maybe of the utmost importance to look at the love of thine self. If we are unable to love ourselves, how are we then able to love anyone else? Loving ourself can be extremely difficult. Many find that physical or mental differences in themselves to be flaws that they wish did not exist or they could change. This is an example of someone who needs to ask themselves the question: if God made me this way, then why can't one accept that they truly are beautiful in God's eyes, the creator of life and death? We as a society have created an image that everyone aspires to be or look like or act like. This is a falter in our society, because as we know from scripture, we do not need to change ourselves to be someone else, but accept our differences and love ourselves for what appears both on the in and outside. If we can't love ourselves, how can we love anyone else?