Thoughts on L.O.V.E.

In the infamous words of Haddaway, "What is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more."

Love is something that has popped into my head on numerous occasions recently. I can safely say I have never actually felt real love for someone outside of my family. This is something I would someday want to feel. There are a few things that come to mind when I think of what love is and what it even means. Love is when a parent decides to punish a child for doing something wrong so that it will save them pain later in life. Love is jumping in front of a bullet for someone. Love is dropping everything you are doing at the moment to be with someone.

Paul says this about love in 1 Corinthians 13, "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, 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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Paul is an amazingly passionate man especially when it comes to love for other people.

Another thought about love popped into my head this afternoon. The thought that love is rest. Think about all the things that we as humans pursue. We want money so we can kick back and do nothing but have fun. We want fame or glory so we can live the life of luxury without a care in the world. Both of these things are the human pursuit of rest. We will never find pure perfect rest until we are one with our creator, but He did leave us traces of it here on Earth. The most prominent one of them is definitely the emotion of love. In movies we see love portrayed as many things, but the most captivating one is definitely when two people are just happy to be with each other doing nothing at all. They don't have to share words. They don't have to go to work. They just are able to rest with each other for a moment suspended in time. That is a beautiful thought. That is what I want to pursue above anything else in this lifetime. I want to work towards my ultimate rest with a creator.

I'll leave this long post off with a thought and then song lyrics.

The thought of pursuing rest is a great one, however, it seems that some of us are more worried about cursing others that we lose sight of loving them. I really wish we didn't use our words and our thoughts to hate people.

Here are some lyrics from The Avett Brothers.
The song is called 'I and Love and You.'

When at first I learned to speak
I used all my words to fight
With him and her and you and me
Oh its just a waste of time
Its such a waste of time

Three words that became hard to say
I and love and you

I'm gonna give this a try

I don't really know what exactly I will blog about. More than likely, it will just be related to life as I live it which is exciting at the moment. I'm almost done with college and I think I'm gonna move to LA or NYC when I'm finished to pursue a career in music.

I spoke about that with my grandmother yesterday and she seemed fairly excited for me. That is a lot to say for her because of the fact that she really wants me to be a music pastor at a church which I just don't feel called to do at the moment.

Shawty's like a melody in my head....