by Regina Hill

Created on: February 04, 2007   Last Updated: May 08, 2007

What is love? Is love only a feeling, an emotion, something that draws you closer to another heart, another soul? It must be stronger than mere words could define. Without love, would we even be alive?

Love is honest, open, available to listen. It understands mistakes and problems, forgives and accepts through the good and the bad. It makes us feel worthwhile, special and trusted, allows second chances when failures have us thinking we're worthless.

Love is hopeful, trusting and vulnerable. It shares itself with others despite fears and resentments, pains that still haunt our spirits. It doesn't give up when it feels rejected and finds the patience to keep giving through the worst confusion or negligence.

Love is caring from the deepest part of your heart, sacrificing your own wants for those of someone else, giving without expectations of receiving, and knowing that your only limits are the ones created by your own inhibitions. We create our own inner prisons.

Love is a smile on another face, a word of encouragement that will get you through the gloomiest of days, a simple gesture of faith when you've almost given up on yourself and your own way. A tender heart can change an entire life with compassion and tolerance, the absence of prejudice or bias.

Love is the moment when someone reminds you that you are special, a unique individual. They invite you into their world with a gentle tug of the heart-strings, a warm word or thought spoken without secret motives, some small gesture of acceptance which restores your hope for tomorrow.

Love is a time that stands out in your mind when someone helped you to heal, regain your faith in the wonder and beauty of living, reassured you that you could be anything you choose to be all you need to do is reach inside your heart and believe!

Love is the light in another's eyes, shining bright and true, showing you the beauty inside their soul, the inspiration of sincere hope. The joy of a smile, the laughter that rings true in the voice speaking to you, convincing you that you are worthy of friendship that honors & accepts you for you.

Love is caring about someone enough to let go, give up control and allow them to do things on their own, even if you know that they may struggle and fall at some point in the long run. Love doesn't imprison or confine. It gives freedom, fulfillment spontaneously.

Love is romance and dreams, fantasies and reality, tears of joy and tears of sorrow, discovering the good within a heart and knowing the worst about another without judging them for their wrongs. Love knows no limits or conditions, builds no walls or prisons, forgives without retribution, praises you for being you.

Love is everywhere, in every heart, providing futures and protecting past loves, sharing joy, faith and serenity, fulfilling spiritual destinies with the beauty of a feeling so strong, so enchanting & mysterious that it almost seems like an illusion, a fantasy, when you love from the core of the being, from the depths of your heart & spirit.

Love is that part of God, living within every heart. When you take another's hand in friendship, you are touching God's Hand with your own. The power of love is incomprehensible, a perpetual link to divinity, an immeasurable supply of strength, energy & fulfillment. Love is completion.

Love, like God, can not be described, explained or defined. Love, like God, can only be felt with the heart, soul and mind.

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