IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, PLEASE TELL THEM SO!

There has been so much written and spoken about love. So many people have fallen in love, out of love, shared love, received love, returned love, and sealed their love. It has been said that love makes the world go round. If that is true, we should hope love will never go away—especially out of our own personal lives.

Why is love so important to each of us? Why is it an essential part of life? Let me give you a little project for your thought world. You can even write down the questions and answers. I think we would all be better off if we kept a journal of our thoughts and deeds, don’t you?

Love. . . What do you think love is? Is it all emotional? Is it more than a feeling or does it always involve actions? When does love start? How long does it last? Can you really fall in & out of love? Think out or write out your definitions and feelings about love.

I can be quite honest with you. I agree with one of my favorite writers when he says something to the effect that love needs to be taken out of the realm of the feelings and emotions. He had much more to say about that but I believe that love must be an unconditional commitment to serve the one loved or as someone else said Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person! That pretty well fits us all, doesn’t it? I think that is why I can love you, my neighbor, and the person I have never seen before.

Love is not a feeling. Feelings are like yo-yo’s—up and down, up and down. Love just has to be more than a feeling. For God so loved. . . and then what happened? He demonstrated that love for us and I think you know the rest of that story (Jno. 3:16).

I know you have done acts of kindness and demonstrated concern for those you love. When was the last time you told important people in your life that you loved them? If you haven’t done that or done it lately, when will you do it? What power will come to that other person just hearing that from you—those three little words: I love you! That can really change people. I would go so far as to say the sky’s the limit on what can happen. One thing for sure—you will never know until you try it.

I don’t know the answer to all those questions I asked earlier but I am working on them a little at a time. I just know one thing for sure, nothing is much sadder than hearing someone say, How could he/she die before I told them I love them? I know that’s true because I have heard it more than once and have said it myself. . .I do know HE! loves you and I do too. h