Love

C.S. Lewis in his book ‘The four loves’ talks about four kinds of human love; affection, friendship, erotic love and love of God. The author discusses the benefits and dangers of these four loves. Each one is significant for human development yet can be destructive if it is not understood as it should. Human experience has taught us that we look, fall and remain in love. Love unites and keeps this universe together. Hence, love is truly an attribute of God because God is love.

Every human being has experienced love from another human being. Love from family and friends are the key to our existence. When two young people fall in love, they become codependent on each other, in other words, they lean on each other. There will be the devastating impact of fall when one is taken out of the support. There must be two persons to lean on each other. This can be applied to family members. Many people feel devasted when their beloved drop them halfway. They feel no sense of meaning in life and no one to lean on.

Are we love ready? This is coming from God for God is love and we are loveable. There is not condition such as I am loveable only if I am perfect. We are worthy of love for we have created to love each other. This is almost true for every human. Every human is loveable not because of perfection. It is humans put conditions to love. There is also an aspect of falling in love where human falls in love with another human. This is the natural design of God. In this, we are in limerence where love is transitional. We are either confirmed or unconfirmed in love. For instance, I can leave a person if something happens or does happen. One must be careful here to grow in love or grow out of love. Being in love is paramount in every human love. In this, we make the choice to be in love or out of love. If we stay in love, we go deeper in love. Hence, there will be an unconditional love between two humans. In conclusion, we examine our lives of love. Love can be beautiful when it is selfless, and it can be dangerous when it is selfish. Let us know that we are loveable because God is love and let us try to be in love with a deeper love.