Love

Much has been written over the eons about love. Mostly romantic love with all of its ecstasy, pitfalls and drama. There is the love we feel for our children, our animals, our new car. People are liable to say that they "love" a new t.v. show or celebrity. So, really, what is love? It's easy to say that you love someone. It's pretty easy to feel love for someone. The really difficult task is in truly loving them. Love is not a noun, it is a verb, an action. Without the action, all the pretty words mean nothing. When your three month old baby is crying incessantly at 3:00 in the morning, do you get out of bed for the umpteenth time and try to soothe them because you feel this great love for them, or because you just want them to shut up so you can get back to sleep? Love is the thing you do when you do not feel loving, when a person is the hardest to love, how do you act toward them?