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What is love?

Love is obedience.
Love is "givenness" to another.
Love is sacrifice.
Love is hearing.
Love is listening.
Love is searching.
And love is found.

Love is quiet wistfulness,
a peace when one is near a friend.

Love is fierce selflessness,
a resolve to give one's life.

Love is resolute patience,
in trying times of another's selfishness.

Love is sometimes "tough love,"
but it never seeks anything but good.

Love is hard to give and hard to find,
but both pursuits are worthwhile.

And love is often overlooked or not appreciated,
but love should not cease.
Love ought to endure forever.

True love is pure gold,
and most of us only possess the alloy,
the impure, incomplete.

And God's Word says this,
that "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 truth.
it always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.
Love never fails..."

Perhaps it is we, who fail to love?
Because if God is love, then love is divine.

And we can only love this fully
by the power of God.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I John 4:7-19 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John+4&version=NIV
I Corinthians 13 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20Corinthians%2013&version...

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last updated 29 March 2012 - 8:01pm
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30 March 2012 - 12:21pm — thisisme789
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Nice write!

That's nice! I liked this one. And even though I'm not a intense (r u christian? catholic? other?) believer in God, I still have some belief, and this poem really touched me.
When you wrote "And God's Word says this" did you mean it to be singular like that or plural, being God's Words?

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28 April 2012 - 4:57pm — Adam아담
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Moriah:

Thanks Moriah, I appreciate your honesty and thoughtfulness. I am a Christian, emphasis on Christ and not a denomination.

I understand how you feel. When I question my faith, thats when I question the thoughts I am thinking. I try to look deeper in myself - because a number of times, my doubts are superficial and I find myself knowing deeply that God is who He says He is. And, I'm learning to trust. I can't just deny what has happened in my life.

Oh, I mean "God's Word" as a compilation of all His given word.

Cheers,
Adam_San