To have LOVE???

There is a saying that goes like this... It is better to have love, and lost, than not to have love at all.... whatever that means. I think this phrase is meant for those who believe in romance, or at least have "fallen" in love. Otherwise, well it could mean the kind of love as in agape love..., which in a way is more meaningful as compared to romance love.

To be honest, I have learn to love people around me, as in to want to care for them... but the romantic type is still beyond my imagination. I mean for as long as I could remember, I've had crushes many times over, but the thought of actually wanting to be with that person always gave me that sickening feeling in my stomach.

Now, I'm learning to take everything in my stride, and to LOVE people around me, instead of allowing whatever weird ideas some people around me had been trying to put into me. I've learn not to pressure myself to "fall" in love, but to just love and care in the agape manner.

1 Corinthians 13:4-13 : Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I first read of these verses long before I became a "Christian", and somehow was always given the bookmark with these verses even though there were others. I knew the meaning but never really comprehend them in my heart. Even when I finally asked Jesus to be my LORD (I wondered whether I did that?), it was because I knew in my heart that HE's real (don't ask how), never because of the need to have LOVE. It's been a long time now, I've comprehend the verses and have come to accept that to have this kind of love is to love like God Himself did. Those verses certainly would not have been suited for romance because, as far as I have observed, lovers have very selfish love, nothing as magnanimous as the one stated in the Bible verses.

So, I guess it is true that it is better to have love and lost, than not to have love at all... and I think this phrase now would refers to the "LOVE" verses in Corinthians, because when we truly have that love, we would also suffer lost, the day when we go separate paths, or when one of us eventually leave to go back to the LORD.

Now, the world would truly be a wonderful place, if only everyone love like this..... Sigh!!!