I have recently discovered that love is not a place you go to escape the world but rather, love is where you go to make sense of this world.

In knowing love you can understand evil. Those who lack love or who have not experienced being loved partake in darkness...in aggression, in hate, in violence, and in crime. There is no possible way one can know love and truly feel loved and be able to think poorly or do harm to another. The gift of love is sooo incredibly humbling and undeserving that it leads you to want to pour it out and share such a blessing with others.

I have been blessed with an immense amount of love my whole life from my family and friends and mentors. I was met by the love of Christ over a decade ago and since that day I wake each day unafraid and filled with hope. I didn't know there was another love that I had yet to marvel.

Until, recently I discovered the quiet, gentle, effortless, love of a very kind man. A love so constant I can feel it even thousands of miles away. A love that keeps me safe and protects. A love that admires me and respects. A love that requires no bells or whistles, romance or game plan...Just a solid, factual, unbreakable bond. commitment. Love should only exist in this form--not an expression of emotion but rather a state of permanence.

Just as my family loves me and always will. And God so loved me that He gave his only son for me so that I may prosper. This man loves me for all of me. All of my flaws and all of my ridiculousness---he wraps his arms around me.

It is a rare thing to experience these four loves which C.S. Lewis once so wisely wrote.
I am one of the fortunate.

Storge. Philia. Eros. Agape.