What is Love?

I feel like this question has come up for me many, many times these past few weeks, and really, the past 6 or 7 years of my life; what is love?

I believe there are different kinds of love, different types and amounts of love. I also believe there are different ways to love.

I have been challenged with many relationships lately. Many that are still going completely fine, but have had me thinking about how they are REALLY doing. If I am doing the relationships the right way. A few of the relationships have been struggling or just simply failing, which had made me thinking about them.

I finally decided to give my all, and stop being concerned about losing people and failure, and I would love people with all of my heart. But what does that even entail? As soon as I made that decision, roadblocks were thrown at me from all directions.

I will be broken down and have to climb back up hundreds of times, and I believe I am come to the point where I am okay with that. But sometimes, I can't help but wishing that this wasn't what I was given. Yet I look around, and I see all the blessings I am surrounded and covered with, and I can't be angry or bitter or regret anything that's happened.

I am who I am because of what I've gone through. I am continually being shaped by what I am going through. I like who I am becoming, and I am excited to leave home who I used to be.

The pain that I am feeling can't even compare to the joy that is coming.

Through the pain, I will thank God for shaping me.

If we want to become fit, we have to work out; we will have sore muscles and tired and aching bones when we work, but after much practice and continued work, we will have the body we hope for. I believe it is the same spiritually and emotionally; the conditioning may be painful, and may seem constant and non stop, but the outcome will be better than what we ever could have dreamed of.