One thing I realize, is that TRUE love is rare. The Love portrayed in the movies based on lust and where everything workouts almost too often perfectly, is not reality. True love requires sacrifice, there is no room for selfishness as you desire to put the other first. It requires one to be selfless, this should come naturally if you really love that person, sure some days may be hard but that is the beauty when two people give not fifty percent but one hundred percent each as I’ve heard before, is the key to a beautiful marriage. To Love someone so much that you want whats best for them and you desire to never hurt them but to only be a blessing to them all the days of their life. What a beautiful vocation marriage can be, if it is rooted in God. Where the husband is the spiritual leader who guides and protects his spouse with great love and fidelity. Too often, I have seen marriages that are out of balance, priorities are not right, God is not first, one spouse is putting in seventy-five percent and the other not much effort at all,etc. In this life, there will be trials, blessings and losses but the beauty of a TRUE VIRTUOUS LOVE is you have a best friend to walk this journey with you.
It always brings my heart great joy to see happy marriages. I mean truly happy marriages. When two spouses truly love one another, it is seen so clearly in the way they interact. Whether it be in their embrace, their words or the tears shed when one of them has to leave on a trip. How sweet it is. I have been blessed to see such a beautiful marriage in my own adopted mom’s life. Her husband is so good to her that it makes my heart so happy! When you really love someone, you want the best for them. I love my adopted mom, Maddie. When I see how beautiful her marriage is it makes me very happy because of the great Love I have for her. I love her dearly and all I want is her happiness. And there it is… When you truly love someone, whether friend or spouse, you truly want their happiness first. Above your desires, you are willing to pray and sacrifice to help build them up and help them grow into the person God created them to be on this journey called life. Whether it be love of a spouse or a friend if you have known true virtuous love, you will realize there is no other way to love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 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.