new but old thing on LovE

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith, goodness, and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self control, and to self control, perseverance, and to perseverance, godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love. 2 Peter 5-7

I think i had found all the necessary ingredients to our ever famous topic: Love. The month of love has just passed, and forums, newspapers, radios, infomercials were all bashed with huggings, kisses, boyfriends, kilig moments, and all the stuffs. Heck i've even used the ever famous 1Cor13 to define it in one thread. But during the Sunday sermon, this verse just hit me because it was included as part of our reading before the sermon proper. At first glance, you might think that all it talks about is how to build ur faith. But if you read it backwards, it also can be used to define love. The ingredients of love. True love as to speak. In our world today, we are constantly blundered by what model couples do to call it truly "in-love". Sweet nothings, special moments together, sweet surprises... All of these leave us girls gushing on what our ideal "love" should be. Otherwise, we don't want to be called plain jane or be left out from our ka-berks. Thus we try to follow our "heart" and maybe sacrifice what we presently believe in or how we are brought up in order to save the relationship or to add spice to the relationship. But are these really really necessary???

The really important stuffs, those that really matters, are not of the heart. Ting a ding!! Some may already roll their eyes.. Well, i guess i believe in the conventional, traditional ways. But that's for me now.. First and foremost, is faith. That will be the common denominator between the two. Faith in God, and not love. Love for God must be first and foremost in the lives of every couple. Without their love for God, all is meaningless. Second comes goodness. Of course that is already a given. Third is knowledge. The saying goes: "One should keep both eyes open before marriage and one eye shut after marriage" works explains clearly its importance. The getting to know stage is as important as anything coz it will determine if you'll still want to pursue the relationship or back off as early as possible, without the buildup of feelings. But of course, room for mystery is also a given. Too much of a something is bad of course. What ought to be told, should be told, but for those that need time, then time should be given. Fourth, self control, perseverance, and brotherly kindness goes hand in hand. In our sex hungry era, most relationships today are already left numb because they have too much experience in this subject. My own thinking is: if you really love the person, love him/her as you would your own brother or sister. Do you want you brother/sister to be defiled? But how would you add zest to your life? I have learned that you could add enjoyment to your day by helping other people. Seeing other people happy are more fulfilling than concentrating on what you'll get this valentines day.

Well these are just thoughts randomly passing my head. Have a nice day everyone. ^^