What is Love?

What is it?
What is this thing we call "Love"?

We can hardly ever comprehend.
However, although we are not too sure of what it actually is, we do know how it works, what it gives us, and what it could mean.

Some say love is a feeling, others would say it is actions.
Well, I say...

Love is who we are. It is in us, in our very nature. It is in our every thought and emotion, in our actions and in the words we speak.
Everything we do, we do it for love.
Love is a force of nature that drive us on, a motivation and a source of inspiration. Love is what we do that benefits the things and the people around us.

Love is affection, love is appreciation.
Love is not blind, like that petty thing called "infatuation"
But it is seeing and accepting, and helps us to grow with each other.

Love is strength, love is unity.
Love is what binds us together, so that we may never be separated.
Love never fails!

Love is in everything.
and love, starts with you!
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P.S: I would like to add on with one of my favourite bible verses:

"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 the truth. 

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
~ 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NIV

Valentine's Day

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14. It originated as a Western Christian liturgical feast day honoring one or more early saints named Valentinus, and is recognized as a significant cultural and commercial celebration in many regions around the world, although it is not a public holiday in any country.

Several martyrdom stories associated with the various Valentines that were connected to February 14 were added to later martyrologies, including a popular hagiographical account of Saint Valentine of Rome which indicated he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend, during his imprisonment, Saint Valentine healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius, and before his execution, he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell.

The day first became associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers "as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver’s heart", as well as to children, in order to ward off epilepsy(called Saint Valentine's Malady). Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.

Saint Valentine's Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion, as well as in the Lutheran Church. Many parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrate Saint Valentine's Day, albeit on July 6 and July 30, the former date in honor of the Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (mordern Terni).

Love (an original poem)

Love is like red wine
a beverage cool, and sweet;
Love is like sweet perfume
Its scent ever so fragrant.

Oh how I wish to drink of your love,
How I wish to smell the sweet scent
of your fragrance.
For your love is ever so refreshing, my dear.
Your love, ever so fragrant.

Your love is my source of inspiration.
A light to guide my path.
Wherever I go, you are there
To lead me on.

Though I can't walk
a thousand miles for you,
Yet you've danced forever in my mind.
Oh how I long to dance with you, my dear.

Oh how I long for these
precious moments,
How I long to be with you,
my true love.
Oh  how I long, to love you.

- Aaron J. Patrick

Restless (an original poem)

O sleep, where hath thou gone to? O rest, where hath thou been? For in times like this, we struggle. In times like this we confide in thee, our most gracious consoler.

But what is this, when tasks we need complete, and there is simply no time? No time, for thee, our confidant, our consoler? No time for rest, where work is necessary.

What happened to "sleep is important"? What happened to "make sure you rest"? For in these times we need to prove That we must do our very best.

No time for sleep, or for play. For work is necessary at the end of the day. By day and by night, we soldiers take flight Fighting to survive 'til the midnight.

No time to sleep, or to rest. Just to prove we did our best. "Don't be lazy" "Do your work" For that is how thou shalt work. -Aaron J. Patrick