'I put my heart on the line for you, My heart on the line for you...'- Craig David
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Hey people :). I wanted to talk about love..
Now this is not one of those soppy emotionally driven posts about finding the one (lol though I know some of y'all wouldn't mind that). This is mainly a post to share what's been on my mind. About a week and a half back I put up a status on my facebook asking 'How do you know if you love someone?'.
Fresh from a trip to go see a friend I was taken aback when they told me they loved me and I was trying to figure it out. I mean this person was someone I'd known for a while, but in certain ways we hardly knew each other. So this made me think, can that profession be legitimate? Can I love someone I'm in the early stages of really getting to know?
Now most of the people who really know me, and even those that don't, know I get my direction from my faith and that I try to walk inspired by the words God gives. As I've been reading I've been noticing a lot lately that in the Bible there's more than one occasion where someone 'loved' someone within minutes of meeting them.
Now love at first sight.. is that a thing?
Well I think it may well be possible.
When I asked this question last week someone described the symptoms of love in the following manner..
...you have a connection based on shared experience, you feel like 'you get them' and want to see them thrive, you have empathy and compassion for them, affection, kindness, respect, etc. It's cultivated over time if there's a mutual willingness to be authentic and to grow together...
In the end I realised it was not so in the case with the friend mentioned, though on my part I think a seed of love was there. I mean, I genuinely did sense all of those things and sought growth for this potential partner. I think love is greater than romantic feelings, but all true romantic feelings that will last will be built on a foundation of true love, as long as it is present. Love grows, but the truth is, the seed of it must always be present beforehand.
With God's help, we can grow and mature into all we're meant to be. But as we do, let us not forget to mature in love..
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