What does love look like?
It has the hands to help others.
It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
It has eyes to see misery and want.
It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
That is what love looks like.
-St. Augustine
I don't know about you, but I get really tired of hearing the word "love" tossed around like it's nothing-because in all honesty, love is everything. I've been blessed to spend an insanely awesome amount of time in adoration since I've moved to Manhattan, and it seems that love is all I think about when I enter that chapel.-love in friendships, love in vocations, love in the monstrance staring back at me.
Love isn't a feeling, it isn't a walk along a beach in the moonlight, and it isn't a magic formula for happiness when sandwiched between the words "I" and "you." It's a choice. That means choosing to give when it's hardest, choosing to put the other first, and choosing to act in a way that upholds the dignity of the other. Phew....love is hard.
There's a lot that God's been throwing at me about love lately, and it's going to take some more time with him to figure out exactly what he's getting at....so until then, a picture is worth a thousand words.
This isn't what love looks like:
This isn't what love looks like:
This isn't even what love looks like:
This is what LOVE looks like:
Prayer: Love in Action by Mother Teresa
ReplyDelete"Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. A mission of love can come only from union with God. From that union, love for the family, love for one's neighbor, love for the poor is the natural fruit."