LOVE

A question came through a group I’m a member of: “What is Love?”

Boy was I ready with my answer. I had done a healing study in 2006/2007 entitled “Changes that Heal”. It covered some thoughts about love. This was important to me as I’m a survivor of child abuse and reading this book explained several things, to me, about how my family acts towards me.

Here’s some of what I learned:

There can be love, but it’s not an attachment or anything more than a deep care if there is no emotion behind it. You also can’t have a true love if you don’t have compassion too. Here’s what my book said: compassion: a belonging love, faithful, loyal love. As quoted, in the book, “only compassion drives us to real sacrificial love”. Sacrificial means, relating to – involving sacrifice. Another meaning of compassion is to have a deep feeling from a deep attachment and empathy. Love is unconditional.

I had answered the question with this:

Love is a feeling you have for someone, for everyone. God created love through His love for us and wants us to share that love with everyone. Love is big enough to be share with all human beings and more.

Someone else came back and said that love is not a feeling at all. Being confused by this I decided to research the subject. The next couple of postings will go over my findings so that this one isn’t so long.

I hope you will read them, enjoy them, and let me know your thoughts.