For You Are Loved

For You Are Loved

Love without searching for love
Love when no one can see it
Love without asking anything in return
Love without guard, without restraint, without limit
Love when you are loved
Love when you are hated
Love when you are ignored
Love in success
Love in failure
Love in friendship
Love in loneliness
Love in joy
Love in dissapointment
Love in love
Love in heartbreak
Love when you have everything
Love when you have nothing
Love when life fills you up and overflows
Love when you are dry and empty
Love God, and through God, love others
Love your life, your gifts, yourself
Love, for you are Loved



*I happened to run into this quote the other day and thought it complimented my poem really nicely.
- "Life is about learning to love. Real love is placing the needs of others before your own. It is making your problem, my problem. It is giving to another without any guarantee of getting anything back. It is giving others what they need, not what they deserve. Although love can create intense feelings, love is not a feeling. It is a choice, an action, a way of behaving, a commitment. Love is sacrificing for others. Real love focuses on how I can serve you, not how you can serve me. It's the opposite of our selfish tendencies."
-- Rick Warren in Better Together*