Can Somebody Tell Me What Love Is?

That is actually a lyric from the song "Ecce" I am helping write for a CD entitled "Behold Your Mother".

I have been thinking about this question for the last couple weeks. God has let me in on some really useful knowledge in the last week. I have known for a while that all of us have been called to love constantly. This means we must love God always, as he commands us to do, and to love our neighbors as our Father in Heaven loves us. He loves us perfectly and constantly, so we must try to imitate him. Well great, but how?

It doesn't seem like we need to be told how to love, but when you think about, could you explain to somebody else how to love? Probably not very well. That is partly because we are each made to love in a different way. I have realized also that God wants me to grow in humility and strength. I must be strong and unwavering in my faith, and as an outward sign of that, I have been working out to become strong physically. But I also must be humble. Practicing strength and humility has become a constant challenge to me, but God has supplied me with opportunities for growth, and I have accepted these challenges. But what do strength and humility have to do with love?

This is the awesome part! I have been asking the question about how to love, and at the same time God has been encouraging me to grow in strength and humility. I finally realized I am called to love through strength and humility. It is my being strong and humble at all times that I am to love at all times. We are all called to love, but not always in the same way. If you ask God how you were made to love, he will tell you, and often times this reveals something about your vocation.

He is risen, Alleluia!!!