What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

Love... I believe it is the most universal sought out expression. Just as it was said in class, love and death are the main tension, or the engine of literature. Most all movies we watch have some sort of love in them. Even the manly ones like Braveheart and Gladiator, both of these movies deal with men driven by love, or the death of the ones they love. “Love makes you do crazy things!” Ever herd that one? William Wallace goes about killing tons of soldiers in the revenge of love. He goes against his own conviction about wanting peace and become their leader into war for his love: craziness, all for love. Even now as I have my iPod on shuffle, it’s amazing how many songs come up that are about love. Some are about gaining love, others about loosing it. It’s everywhere! I believe it is this way because we are created in God image and he is the Father of love, we have a spiritual and physical drive towards love. I don't believe the hunger for love is ever truly satisfied until we are in heaven with our Lord. Until that day, we continue to seek out, search for, long for, desire, need, wish for... love. There was a line that stopped me in my reading of this story. When Mel, the one doing most of the talking, says that "it seems to me we're just beginners at love." I think that statement has so much truth in it. When does one fully accomplish love? You hear married couples say all the time that they are more in love then ever before. Do we grow more in love or do we grow more appreciative for what love is and how important it is in our life or how blessed we are to have it in our lives.