love, what a strange concept

as i've grown up, i've been able to learn a lot of things about love
for one, that it never fails

now this may be hard to believe, because if love never fails then how come divorce and break-ups exist?

well there is only logical solution, the love wasn't real

now you can argue with me all day about how you "loved" that one person, but it just wasn't working out for either of you

now to me, that doesn't sound like love

love is fighting
love is patient, love is kind
love is sacrifice
love is un-ending, it never gives up, it never runs out
love never fails

but the part that is truly devastating, is that true love may have only been felt by one person

now i'm not here to tell you that one's love was fake, but if that person chose (keyword: chose) to love no longer, they never truly loved

love does not change, it does not make conditions
it does not decide one day, hey it's time to move on

love doesn't work that way,
love never fails

i think the concept of "love" has been twisted and altered in our world to lead us to believe we can fall in and out of love

ha, it's funny to believe you can "fall out of love", there is no such concept

love cannot be broken, or altered or demanded
love occurs naturally, and love is unconditional

take the love of God for example, that is pure love

there is nothing in this entire universe that will ever be able to separate us from God's overwhelming love

no matter how many times we've fallen short, betrayed, gone against or ran away from God's love, it's always there

it always welcomes us home with open arms,
and offers grace at any given opportunity

now that, is love.

and i'm not here to tell you that you cannot love, because no love can ever amount to the love of God

but simply showing that true love is something that never really leaves, and if it does, it wasn't ever deeply present

because if you do choose to truly love, you will do anything
you will fight until death does you part
you will invest all you have
you will give up areas of your life that may be hard in order to make it work
because after all,
love
never
fails.

hs