Love isn't what you think.

They say there are many types of love but I disagree.

There is only one love, taught to us by God –love with no labels, no strings, no limitations.

Us mere mortals mix up love cocktails of: Mate ship, friendship, care, respect, tenderness, lust, envy, parenthood, like, sibling rivalry, tolerance, adultery, restrictions, limitations, conditions, all the good and the bad, then we justify it as different types of love.

Weren't we asked to love one another as the Lord loves us - therefore Love is care, mercy, forgiveness, understanding and patience? The same love for all.

Untangle the Brotherly love, sisterly love, and Motherly love, the love for our husbands, wives, lovers, and friends. Remove the lust, the envy, all other emotions and restrictions – strip it bare and you have what the Lord asks.

Love is just Love – PURE and SIMPLE.

Don’t pollute it. Don’t label it. Don’t blur it.

Just follow the instructions

“Love one another as I have loved you” and how can we go wrong.

Comments: 17

c.l.m. 180˚ Oct 11, 2009, 8:16am EDT

... you have put a great complexity into great understanding. thank you for showing what the true way of love can be & really is.

Bernadette H. Oct 12, 2009, 2:18am EDT

Thank you c.l.m. It has taken me a long time to figure this out. I had some help from above.

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Marinela Kotsina Oct 11, 2009, 12:45pm EDT

I feel the same like you. We have labeled feelings and confusing what love really is. We may feel different but the energy is the same.
Thank you for sharing

Bernadette H. Oct 12, 2009, 2:18am EDT

Thank you Marinela for your comments.

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elizabeth e. Oct 11, 2009, 6:14pm EDT

Funny, this is exactly the conversation Magi and I were having in the car the other day. There is so much confusion in this world today as to the nature of love, but strip all those negatives away, like lust and envy....and there is just pure love.

Featured in Angels on our Pillows.

Bernadette H. Oct 12, 2009, 2:28am EDT

Bernadette H. Oct 12, 2009, 2:21am EDT
Thank you Bob for featured my article. I can't compete with Allen's poems at the moment and currently my writing is moving away from poetry towards prose.

Love is a strange thing and a thing that most of us don't understand.
I will never fully understand it but I am learning.

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Magi the magical poet is riding the wind again Oct 11, 2009, 7:32pm EDT

I agree with you completely, Bernadette - and with you, Bob.

Bernadette H. Oct 12, 2009, 2:22am EDT

Thank you Magi - your directing me to a Course of Miracles has been enlightening.

Magi the magical poet is riding the wind again Oct 12, 2009, 6:32pm EDT

ACIM is the Truth that will set you free, my friend.

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Allen H. Oct 12, 2009, 2:26am EDT

Some would say the only true love is between a parent and child - it is unconditional, nurturing and asks for nothing in return.
Others disagree - I found a poem on the web that puts it thus:

Some love is ice.
Some love is fire.
But the cleanest,
purest love is desire.