"Sometimes
the heart sees what's invisible to the eye" -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.-
The answer is NO. When you love someone, truly love someone, you love them despite the way they receive or give you love. You can't suggest that you love someone wholeheartedly and when they only reciprocate it with partial love, you adjust your love. That isn't love. God says in John 13:34-35, "...as I have loved you, you must love one another." We don't alter love, at least GODLY love.
Our views and perceptions on love often dictate the way that we give and receive love. An embattled heart isn't going to love the same way that an "open" heart would.
LOVE + STRUGGLE = LOVE BATTLES
There is NOTHING better & NO greater feeling than knowing that the person you love loves you back the same and more. An embattled heart can't even fathom that type of love, passionate love nor can they give it.
So, during this holiday season, I employ you to consider your LOVE BATTLE.
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ReplyDeleteIf I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
ReplyDeleteIf I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record 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. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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DeleteI have never seen it in that aspect. I have always found myself fighting for the attention of in a sense a lover. I know that I have a lot of people that love me unconditionally and would help me in anyway that they can. However, I am looking for the love of a significant other that I can hopefully if God gives me the right one to marry. I think I have found someone but we have had past history and battles but after reading this. I have established that I am loving with a broken heart and until I am fully healed. Thanks this helps out a lot.
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