Hello there! Happy spring!! The weather (for the most part) is gorgeous here and I hope all of you are soaking up the beauty and newness of the season. I have something that's been bugging me a lot lately. I will warn you now, this post will most likely turn into a rant about how irritated I get by people, but bear with me.
Love. That's what I chose to create a blog about. Whether it was God's love, the love of others, my love for things, or what have you, this blog was to be written about love. I'm going to speak today of a particular kind of love. This love is romantic love. The love a dating couple feels for one another or that one spouse feels for another. However you choose to look at it, that is the type of love I want to focus on.
What I have been noticing more and more is the tendancy to "date" someone for, oh, say a week and then end it. Or for a long, seemingly healthy relationship to end simply because the couple wasn't willing to strive to make it work. As a society, we are completely losing touch with the true meaning of love. Love is not supposed to be easy. It's something you're supposed to have to work for. That's what makes it so beautiful. When you've worked hard for something, it becomes that much more important to you. So if we continue to stop loving simply because it is inconvenient for us, what will our world turn into?
I have friends who will be in a relationship just so they can say they're in one. There is no desire to make the other person into a BETTER person. There is no hope that the other person will get to Heaven. Relationships today are so focused on sex or personal gain that they crumble when they hit the slightest snag. It's so disheartening. My children will grow up thinking that love is something we can take and throw away whenever we please. Our world is so far from what it was created to be. We were created to love. But we were not created to define love ourselves then live out the love we created. "You were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness." Pope Benedict hit the nail on the head when he said this. All our society focuses on is what's good for us or profitable for us. No. We were commanded by God to love one another as Christ loves us. And Christ does not love us only when it is "convenient" for Him. No! He loves us at all times.
I find it so upsetting that couples will end their relationships because of some stupid, petty disagreement. Without disagreement, there would be no interest. You can't simply agree on everything. It's cliche, but opposites do attract. I'm not saying you should date someone you don't share values with, but you shouldn't date a "carbon copy" of yourself. What fun is that? But honestly. A strong relationship only gets stronger when obstacles are overcome. We don't give relationships a chance to grow strong. I hope people realize and come to understand how beautiful a gift love truly is. It's a gift worth fighting for.
