what is love

I believe love is patient, kind etc all the stuff out of the Bible that gets quoted at weddings, but we have forgotten what selfless love is, as you practise it Lynn Ruth and if we do love like Lynn Ruth, people are immediately suspicious. We love for selfish reasons and that is not loving but taking. Loving is only about giving, never about receiving. Love is also the real thing a mother feels for her child. I read a story in the NYTMagazine today about mothers with kids in Iraq. It caught me off guard and it made me cry. If only we could mobilize the troops on the emotions of these mothers...

Lynn Ruth, there are few Mother Theresas left and even though I have children and feel a love for them, would die for them if it would save their lives, I am not even sure whether I am loving in the way I am supposed to. I am not saying this to be flippant but love in the Mother Theresa/Christlike sense is almost impossible to emulate. We're far removed from a loving world and that is sad because I do also believe that love would solve everything if we all adhered to it. Nothing simpler and harder to accomplish!And yet we're still not getting it. We need a Western Gandhi, or something, to get that across...