So, I have been reflecting on what LOVE means to me. We are in the month of February-- the month of LOVE, there are so many of our friends celebrating a wedding, an anniversary... I began to think: what is love and what does it really mean to me personally?
I have been married to my husband for about a year and a half now. We have had our shares of the good and bad, the happy and sad, the easy and the difficult. We've been at the mountain top-- and the low valley... and through it all, I believe that our love through all the circumstances and trials has only brought us closer together. You see, I vowed to my husband on our wedding day to love him, understand and support him, through the good and the bad, in sickness and in health, til death due us part!!! And to me-- those vows will be FOREVER!!
The word of God shows us in 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 that "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails".
On Valentines day-- my husband took me to see "The Vow". To me, it was an awesome movie-- very realistic, and there were many points in the movie that I loved. However, there was one specific part in which the mother is speaking about her relationship with her husband and she said: "I chose to stay with him for the many things he did right, not the one thing he did wrong! WOW!!! What do you think of that???
We are humans, we all have our faults and make mistakes, we are by no means perfect. No two people are identically alike. Marriage is about two completely different people coming together and learning to live as one. You are bound to have disagreements and conflicts. But what will you do? Will you move past it, work on it, and move forward?? Or will you call it quits at the first difficulty you have??
Going back to 1 Corinthians, I believe that love is not about us and thinking about ourselves. It is about the other person. It is about learning to be patient when they get on your nerves, to trust in the difficult times, to understand one another, to support each other in hopes and dreams, to encourage and uplift one another, to hope for a better future, to forgive when you make mistakes, to compromise and meet half way when you cannot come to an agreement!! This is what LOVE truly means to me. It is what I have learned thus far... and what I will continue to work on everyday by the Grace of God!!
I leave you with this quote from my all time favorite movie (The Notebook): "Its not going to be easy. Its going to be really hard. And we're going to have to work at this every day. But I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday".
What does love really mean to you?? Think about it??
