For those of us who have pets, it’s easy to understand our sadness when they die or get hurt.  It’s pretty remarkable how one heart can spew out so many flavors of love for people, animals, places or things.  One heart accommodates love in a variety of meanings. Just one word and one syllable, love, yet it’s definition carries a slew of  interpretation.

We love our parents but not in the same way we love our children. We love our spouses, but not in the same way we love our own siblings. We love food but not the way we love our pets. We love activities but not the same way we love sleep. We may love to travel but not in the same way we may love to be home.  As said before, God is love. He can love in every way love is meant to be. God is all those connotations and more all at once!

But with all the beautiful notions felt through “love” and all the different levels and nuances of those feelings, when we lose something we ‘love”, the result is the same; heartbreak. Maybe it’s in those varying intensities of love that determine not the ache of our heart, but the time endured of those sad effects.  Some are unbearable for a lifetime, while others are lessened over time and new experiences and some are even short lived. Our own personal love cannot be defined except with time and depending on dynamics.   God’s love can be defined more readily.

God is love and love is God.

Thanks be to God,

Paula