The Power of Love..

I am currently snuggled up in my converted attic bedroom, watching 'The Polar Express' trying to recuperate from a nasty virus. Today, I'd like to dedicate this post to everyone out there who has experienced the feeling of love. There are so many various ways of this emotion being expressed, and so many forms, for example, a mother's love for her child, a boyfriend's love for his girlfriend, a dog's love for his owner, God's love for all of us, a grandfather's love for his granddaughter,  a husband's love for his wife, a sister's love for her younger brother, etc. I believe there is no greater gift than love. To be filled with the potential to let another person feel warm, safe, special, excited, worthy, and to show them that they are needed and belong. To know that everyday you wake up that day holds the potential of gaining the love of yesterday's stranger. And most importantly, imagining the possibilities that lay before you, the hearts out there who have not yet been touched by the brilliance of your existence. Think, there are people out there, getting on with their daily tasks, who wish you knew how much they love you.


To love without pain is a lie. It comes as a packaged deal. Love is wonderful and powerful, but anything so powerful has to contain the possibility of devastation. Just think, we allow ourselves to love others and sometimes to accept the love in return all the time knowing that our hearts are no longer in our control, we lay them on the table for everyone to look at and damage in anyway they wish, but we still let ourselves do this. Why? Because that is the power of love. The power of love makes us put their needs before our own. The power of love takes away a part of our control. The power of love runs parallel to the power of hate. Two emotions so strong that they link, cross and are siblings in the field of entwined feelings. It is normal to have hatred feeling for those we love, temporarily, and it is actually normal to love those we hate. This is why. Also, take unrequited love for example, the pain that surrounds this is unbearable, yet we can't stop ourselves from loving no matter how powerful the pain, love is addictive.


I am honoured that I am blessed with the capability to love others, for there is no greater gift, apart from maybe having the capability to be loved in return.


We make the mistake in confusing falling in love with lasting love, one is natural, one needs commitment, one may fade, the other, well, the clue is in the name.




So many serious global issues can be resolved by love, but we don't believe the idea, and as our faith dwindles so does the possibility. LOVE HAS THE POWER TO END WARS, LOVE HAS THE STRENGTH TO SAVE LIVES, LOVE IS THE EVERLASTING REASON TO GET OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING.


My love always, E x