Love: What's it's value?
Is everything we do to obtain it, maintain it, nurture it, and retain it worthwhile, or is it just a waste of effort considering its potential loss?
I say indeed it is. The ability to love, truly love someone completely and fully without condition is so powerful--and so rare. But the internal and emotional benefits...well, they cannot be measured. Hopefully we've all experienced the high that comes along with that type of connection at least once in our lives; some of us a few times---though I'm a little skeptical of the genuineness of those who claim to find it so frequently as I believe it is not that easy to come by. Those of us who have experienced it know just how lucky we are. So much so, that even if we've experienced it for even as little as a few weeks or months, that unique feeling will have us addicted to and searching to replicate that feeling endlessly.
Interestingly, some are so affected by its power after having achieved it, they give up. They value it so intensely, they actually lose interest in ever finding it in another person.
Love....
So valuable, so unbelievably intense and beneficial to the soul; yet potentially so destructive. So what's its true value...?
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“Love is the greatest need of any soul. Which is why our deepest wounds have to do with love in one form or another. And when a person knows, really knows they are loved, they interpret life so completely differently from the person who doesn’t know they are loved. And it is the love of God, above every other joy, that heals our hearts and sets us free. To love. Which is the purpose of our existence.” I believe John Eldridge aptly sums up the value of love: Love is the reason we are here, without it we are not really alive. Love is crucial, it is dangerous, but it is THE most important thing on this earth. To love God, others and yourself is to live a life worth living. I don’t think you can put a value on love…I think anyone would say that to have someone’s love is to possess a precious and priceless gift.
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