Love Is . . .

By the very title of this blog, Stop Twisted Love, it is apparent we're exploring issues of PREVENTION, how to avoid getting stuck in a horrible relationship.  Perhaps, after a year and a half of this topic, we need at least one on what our goal is: finding true love, and recognizing it when you have it.

So many young people ask, "How do I know if I'm in love?"  The answer is not easy but know you will be on a different plane of existence!  Love makes you see the world through different eyes!  All the colors are more vibrant, more intense.  The sight of a perfect red rosebud may move you to tears.  Was the sky ever so blue?

Love is energizing!  suddenly you feel revved up, eased into another gear, you can accomplish everything you need to do quickly and efficiently without effort.

Love does not desire or demand much from the beloved, just to be as near as possible, for as long as possible.  The joy of merely hearing the beloved's voice alone is immensely satisfying.  Suggestion: ask your loved one to leave a voice mail on your phone so you can play it back whenever you would like.

Love looks forward to a future with the beloved, a future of love without end. True love will go through anything for the good of the beloved; no sacrifice is too great if it helps!

Lovers nurture each other, see the good in each other.  Lovers realize their loved one is a human being with faults and weaknesses just as they have.

Lovers want their love to spill over to the whole world, they cannot help it, they cannot contain it!  Love flows out of their smiles for each other!

Love is so wonderful and so beautiful that lovers are not afraid of what it may bring. Lovers promise they will take each other, "for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer," and they mean it.  The worst circumstances can be endured, if they are together.

Lovers know the feelings between them are sacred, and they thank God!

Lovers feel so happy they want to cry!  If you feel this way, maybe you're IN LOVE!!

Dear God, we know without a doubt that ALL LOVE COMES FROM GOD.  We can love because God loved us first!  He loved us so much He sent His only Son down from heaven to save us from our sins!  Thank you for coming to us, Lord Jesus, Son of God!