Why do we love the people we love?
How do we choose whom to love?
Can we love people we don't know?
Do we only love people we really know?
Sometimes we don't have the choice necssarily, like when it comes to the family we grow up in. Or do we automatically love them so much because we know them and we have known them ever since the beginning of our time. They're part of us, we're part of them.
Without them, we wouldn't be.
And on the flip side, why do we often take for granted the people we know and love most?
As if they are expected to handle any of the dirt that gets thrown at them from our direction.
Like some sort of loyalty test to see how strong their love for us is.
Or is it because we need those certain people who we can crumble and emotionally convulse in front of, that choose to love us just the same, because they know better. They know us.
We need them, because the only way to stay sane, for the long haul, is by having momentary but completely irrational eruptions around people that will remind us of who we are and help us stay on the right path.
There are some people we are naturally drawn to and desire to know better.
Like when we just observe someone from a distance and think, "I want to be their friend I think I'd click with them."
Then there are other people we come across where we instinctually think, "move away I don't want to get stuck with them".
I guess, in both cases, that's just our judgmental superficial side.
Which we all have used at times.
But we can't really be so sure, so quick, unless we go through the process of knowing them.
All these thoughts, lead me to my most significant musing.
In that, if we need to know in order to love,
then the same law of love applies to Jesus.
Just like we sing every year at Christmas time, "Truly he taught us to love one another, his law is love and his gospel is peace..."
If we don't yet love Him, my conclusion is that we just don't truly know Him.
For to know Him is to know LOVE.
Unknowingly we have all sensed His presence, seeing that everyone has experienced love in some form.
In our friendships, in our families, in our relationships.
But all those loves are a mere reflection of the One who has allowed us to experience this movement that drives our innermost desires.
If you wish to love your loves better, get to know the One who has granted Love to you.
It is deemed wise to know the owner of what has been temporarily lent to us on earth.
For if love is something you wish to eternally hold on to,
the best way is to know the unending source from whom it came.
But this Great Love that has been lent,
can certainly be owned,
by quite simply accepting it and then growing in the know.
"I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them." John 17: 26
