Love

While thus contemplating the matter, and so just in between listening to a song by Savage Garden called 'Truly Madly Deeply', whereas they sing this beautiful ballad in a key quite pleasing to the ear. I began thinking about love in a broader perspective, since apparently everyone has an inclination to sing about it. Whether it is the Righteous Brothers", 'Unchained Melody', or Vince Gill's, "Just Take a Look at Us', or Journey's 'Faithfully', people sing about love. And they proudly sing like a lovely bird shining in colors of ebullient radiance.
And then some sing like Patsy Cline, Luther Vandross or Anita Baker's rhythm of sadness and melancholy about love gone by, lost, hopelessly reaching toward some sense of comprehension. Or Ginnette Reno singing "C'est beaucoup mieux comme ca." Even Claude Barzotti "J'ai les bleu." Or maybe you are one of those desperados the Eagles sing about"
Yes, love songs are beautiful to listen to. They create a sense of warmth, glow, excitement, motivation, willingness and approval in matters which makes us giggle or give us goose bumps, even perhaps to cry in joy, comfort and fulfillment. Turning a flicker into a flame. Or in times of sorrow and anguish produce tears which stream from our eyes a real element falling from our sight of emotive stirrings.

Indeed, love is real and substantial. For it springs from a source within us in progressive measure till the fullness of the maturation is affectionately sage with all cultivation and insight. In which a producing harvest invigorates its landscape. Perhaps a matter for one to pray, "that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and discernment."
Abound still more and more! Yes, words teeming in rich and plentiful tapestry. Encompassing the essence of all that we are, and all that we should accomplish to be, in loving kindness, "from our innermost being", "having been filled with the fruit of righteousness," so that our hearts "overflow with a good theme."

Love, therefore, carries along with it more than emotions, feelings and sentiments as it does a "real knowledge and discernment." To know and grasp, even while accompanying the emotive landscape, to reach "exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think" and to know the love...which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to the fullness..." so that we "may be able to comprehend ...what is the breadth and length and height and depth," which has been freely "lavished upon us "in all wisdom and insight" to those who would take a drink of the well of living waters.

"And I show you a still more excellent way." "Love never fails." Therefore, "pursue love" which is the "greatest" of all desired gifts on this earth, my friend. For without it, we can only speak to men and women as a "noisy gong or a clanging cymbal." For "when I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child." But "when I became a man, I did away with childish things." Therefore, "earnestly desire the greater gifts."

"" The Song of Songs;

" Draw me after you and let us run together!"
" Will rejoice in you and be glad; [w] e will extol your love more than wine."
" Tell me, O you whom my souls loves,"
" If you yourself do not know, [m] ost beautiful among woman."
" How beautiful you are my darling, [h] ow beautiful you are!"
" Your eyes are like doves."

Yes, love is a theme likened to a gondola, which serenades through its crystal clear passages of waters, leading upwards in maturity of mind, will and emotion. In mind to seek knowledge, wisdom and discernment nestled comfortably with an emotive capability, growing from faith to faith. With each stepping and passing stone diligently being carved and firmly placed, can the reciprocal blooming take fulfillment.
Oh! What marvelously carved precept to be thus excitedly enamored with! While quietly being restored, replenished. And filled with refreshing living waters flowing from the "river of life, clear as crystal," as "a well of water springing up to eternal life."

To teach the mind in matters affecting the heart and soul, of vulnerable, fragile, dignified and precious spirits that we are. To instruct us in wisdom and discernment concerning the development and experience to each, which is individually attainable. For we are all growing in different aspects and paces unto love, which ought to prudently advise our emotions and minds as to the beneficial respect love is actually flavored with. For love never fails. It can only love. Love knows no other path.

"Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."
"But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

As a matter of fact, there are degrees of love which challenge our endeavors in an emotional context. Or, even yet, in situations of intellectual types and shadows. Whether practical or theoretically speaking necessitates, by and large, a sober and solemn reflection to be thus equipped with a "joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, [and] self-control," for which, in such magnanimity, there is lavish benevolence.
Verily, to have our hearts encouraged and strengthened by "having been knitted together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge" of love, requires some established and measurable faith of instructed learning "overflowing with gratitude." For without knowing love intimately, whispering soft melodies to the heart and mind, soul and spirit, well then how to thither in earnest willingness to expectations of reaching the zenith of the greatest gift humanity has ever been bestowed, as we tarry there uninformed"
Indeed love is a matter of willing. Therefore, the will of a person needs to be activated or else no response will occur from its provocations. For love is not just a romantic sensual experience between a couple of opposite sexes, but also the love which comes from a sincere heart in affectionate respect, honor, prestige and dignity of all human beings in their varied maturity. For "love does no wrong to a neighbor."
Love is, therefore, the fulfillment of all that is all, which we all call, to each all, in which many may fall, but then, after all, "love never fails".