What Is Love?

What is Love? - This question is asked in the hearts of all of us from the first ability we have to recognize the care we have for others and their care for us in return.  Love seems like such a simple concept when we are small.  As a child it is the selfless affection of our mother as she snuggles us in her arms, covers us in the kisses that only a mother can give, and tucks us warmly into bed.  We are perfect in her eyes, despite our many imperfections, and that love gives us the confidence to soar!   

As the years pass we become less able to recognize true love and are often duped by impostors of love; affection and attention that is not born of the pure and goodly love for our well being that our mother had for us as a child.  

Sometimes we allow bitterness to dilute our hope and we desire love to continue to work for us as it did when we were children, instead of working for love.  We begin to lose the concept that love takes effort and most of all sacrifice.  

The greatest Sacrifice of Love is on the cross.  Quite simply when we ask ourselves the question, "what is love," we are to pull out the crucifix and look at the beaten and bloody man upon it who gave his life for ours out of love.  It is then that we remember that love is not self-seeking, that it always protects, alwaystrusts, always hopes, and always perseveres (1 Corinthians 13:4-8.)  The man in this video knows what true love is, and because of that he is not burdened by love but rather given the gift of great joy in a love without end.