By Madelapiz

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time,

destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
--Madame de Stael

One of the most difficult words to define is love. Centuries have passed by, relationships
have bloomed, and so has love. Throughout the history of mankind, we as a world culture have
made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and indefinable. It is a subject of endless
poems and literary works. There is enormous amount of material available out there about love,
a lot of it contradictory. No matter how we define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the
history of mankind.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a
beginning and all fear of an end. This beautiful quotation about love is a good way to look at
our loving relationship with God. The Bible says, Love is patient, love is kind. It does not
envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily
angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. This verse
describes the characteristics of true love, Gods love for us. True love is a symbol of eternity.
Just like Gods love for us that is eternal. Such is an amazing love, because we are the ones who
choose to be separated from Him through our own sins, yet it is He who mends the separation
through His intense personal sacrifice, and all we have to do is accept His gift-His only begotten
Son, sacrificed so that we, who put our faith in His Son, will not spend eternity separated from
Him.
Such qualities of love can also be found in all truly loving relationships. True love means
wanting the best for the other person. It is not possessing but liberating. It is the action of
choosing unconditionally in the process of offering to another human being the qualities of
affection, acceptance, happiness, care, concern, respect, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, compassion,
trust, joy and many other positive emotional expressions of value and worth. It is deciding to
love the other person no matter who he was, who he is, and who he will be. It is forgiving the
other, who has offended us, and totally trusting and accepting him back forgetting all he has done
against us and putting all of it in the past. It does not fear of what is going to happen, of what we
will be facing as long as we are true and have loved truly. Its depth cannot be measured. It is the
greatest thing we all need to learn the act of loving unconditionally.