Live, Laugh, Love....LOVE

Love was the best thing in the world; before we started taking advantage of it. We have become out of touch with the meaning of love, and have definately taken God's love for granted. He sent His son to Earth to die so that we may be forgiven of our sins. Jesus paid the ultimate price, giving us the ultimate gift. But what do we do? Take it for granted, take advantage of it, and play around with it as if a new birthday gift. Love is not a bad thing, it never has been. But when you expect to love, things get bad-FAST. So many people think that love is the best thing ever, and it is. That is exactly why we need to treat it for what it's worth. Don't treat love like a teddy bear, that you can throw and it will still be fine. But rather treat it like glass, breakable.
For those of you "in love", I only have a few words. First, give him/her your all. Don't ever take the love you have for granted. If you do, you will let him/her slip through your fingers before you know what is going on. Love is like sand, when extremely careful you can hold it in your hands. But if you aren't paying attention it will slip through your hands. You can take that sand and wet it (compassion, care), making it hard and easier to hold onto. But eventually you will have to wet it again. So many people just do the bare minimum, thinking that is "all they need" and "he/she won't ever leave me". But that's where they go wrong. Just because we don't want to leave, or think that our life would be chaos without you, doesn't mean we are 110% happy with you. I honestly wish everyone would stop taking love for granted. What happened to the "love your neighbor as yourself, love your enemies" theology? How about your parents telling you that boys/girls had cooties? Quite honestly, they still do. Things never changed. Now, those "cooties" are STDs, pain, heartbreak, and things of the sort.

I miss the age when all we worried about was whether we were having Chocolate icecream or Vanilla and when getting in trouble meant eating a cookie out of the cookie jar!