LOVE: WHAT YOU CALL LOVE

Be careful what you call love, for there are many kinds. All to often I see self love being touted off as love of another, but love of another should strive to be selfless even when it is not. Selfless love is a very hard thing to give from the frail human heart,(at least to another, but sometimes we give too much to ourselves) it's hard to get from a wounded spirit that needs just as much love back, so I understand the tricky nature of what I suggest. I ask only that we all try to tune into ourselves more, in order to lie less. It is important to understand also that not all deceptions are obvious even to the deceiver, nor are they aways intentional.( The devil's trickery at work, and yes the devil is real, if you doubt you make his struggle and that of all evil easier.) Knowing this myself I'm trying to point out we often deceive ourselves about our feelings with the best of intentions.

Please take time today to examine your love....What ever love you have in your life, be it self love, romantic love, love for a child. Let's take time to examine it and see the truth in it, we ordinarily might over look. What evil can lie in love you ask, what human emotion is more complex, do we every really see all it's facets, do we try?

When you love someone, do you love them to love them, nurture them and support them unconditionally, or do you love them to control them?

When you love someone do you love them because something about them is so dear to you, you cannot help yourself? Or do you love to be loved back?

When you love yourself, is it because you know you need self love to move forward on a spiritual or developmental level, or do you love yourself, purely so you can live with and over look your faults?

Do you love in order to protect and educate, or to have leverage to instill guilt and duty?

Be careful what you call love and how you love. Be careful what you call love, and most of all be careful how you allow yourself to define love and what you allow it to grow into over the test of time.

Love is not possession, love is freedom, when it becomes shackling and constrictive, and a burden, when you fear every misstep you may make could plunge you into loneliness and leave you in the cold, it is not love, but it isn't too late either. There is no place for fear in love, only trust.

This goes to the top because I need the reminder so badly too.