Homily Of Love

When you think of your past love, you may view it as a failure.  But when you find a new love, you view it as a teacher.  In the game of love, it doesn't really matter who won or who lost.  What is important is you know when to hold and when to let go.

You know you really love someone when you want him/her to be happy, even if their happiness means that you're not part of it.  Everything happens for the best.  If the person you love doesn't love you back, don't be afraid to love someone else again, for you'll never know unless you give it a try. 

You'll never love a person you love unless you risk for love.  Love strives in hurting.  If you don't get hurt, you don't learn how to love.  Love doesn't hurt all the time.  Though the hurting is still there to test you, to help you to grow.  

Don't find love, let love find you.  That's why it's called 'falling in love' because you don't force yourself to fall.  You just fall.  You cannot finish a book without closing it's chapters.  If you won't to go on, then you have to turn the pages, to leave the past behind.  Love is not destroyed by a single failure or won by a single carress.  It is a lifetime venture in which we are always learning, discovering and growing.

The greatest irony of love is letting go when you need to hold on, and holding on when you need to let go.  We lose someone we love only when we are destined to find someone else who can love us even more than we can love ourselves.  On falling out of love, take sometimes to heal and then get back on the horse.  But don't ever make the same mistakes of riding the same one that threw you the first time.

To love is to risk rejections, to love is to risk dying, to hope is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is risk nothing.  To reach for another is to risk involvement, to expose your feelings is to expose your true self, to love is to risk not to be loved in return.  

How to define love?  fall but not stumble, be constant but not too persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand, hurt but never keep the pain.  Love is like a knive.  It can stab the heart or it can carve wonderful images into the soul that always last for a lifetime.