Writing inspired by The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 48-50, Love Is A Four Letter Word.
To love someone is to have a deep feeling of affection, such
that you would sacrifice greatly for them, but today, ‘Love’ can be interpreted
any number of different ways. It has become an over used and desensitized description
word without further meaning than to like something. To say, “I love him” would communicate that someone is in
love if their definition of love is the same as the dictionary’s. However, this statement is used multiple
times by almost every teenage girl when referring to a movie star or someone
they think is cool. This meaning
of love is now shallow and vain.
Even with the right understanding of love’s meaning, it
is still misunderstood for the feelings that come from physical contact. Lovemaking, although it is the joining
of two people in marriage, has become so stereotypical to the world. It is not even looked upon as something
special because of the way it is talked about and the way is it abused.
Lovemaking alone cannot even keep up the human race
because babies need to feel loved to live. Scientists do
not know exactly how an infant senses love but part of it is through sense of
touch and hearing. A study
was done in China where one hundred orphaned babies were taken off the street
and taken care of. Fifty of them
were held, stroked, and spoken to along with all the basic needs. The other fifty were given only basic
care of feeding and changing without any physical or verbal attention. All fifty of the ‘unloved’ babies
died.
What then is love?
True love is what Jesus Christ did for us when he died
on the cross for our sins. Paul
the apostle wrote to the Corinthians, “Love is patient, love is kind, it does
not envy or boast. It is not
arrogant or rude. It does not
insist on its own way. It is not
irritable or resentful. It does
not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.[1]”
[1] Paul the Apostle, 1Corinthians 13:4-7
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