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What is LOVE This is my heavy Lets Blog Off Post

Posted by GKelly on Feb 1, 2011 in Fun, Musings, Products, Seasonal Finds | 5 comments

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What is love…

Love is a complete surrender. It’s a shredding of the armor and a release of fear. It’s taking the glass barrier you’ve shielded yourself with and having someone throw a brick directly in its center allowing every piece of shattered glass to tumble at your feet. It’s exposure. It’s possibility. It’s adventure. It’s peace. When love floods in, it fills your soul with warmth from head to toe which overflows into the world through your pores. It opens your eyes. It makes room for opportunity. It’s complete and infinite freedom. It’s allowing everything that is beautiful to come inside and also be given away. It’s vulnerable. It’s the ability to feel pain in the deepest part of your being and the ability to GIVE way beyond any thoughts of ourselves. Love is acceptance. It’s appreciation. It’s unhindered truth.

I leave you with a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning my mom always recited when we were children.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday’s

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with a passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

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5 Comments

Chamois / February 1, 2011

Great classic poem – have always adored Browning’s explanation of love. And I love your image of a brick shattering through glass – the simple action of pulling back an arm and pitching something forward with such drastic results. Beautiful, explosive.
Joseph / February 1, 2011

Holy Smokes! That first paragraph absolutely totally blew my mind! I really think you have captured the total essence of what is so clearly an intangible. I’m tempted to add more, but it would be like adding brush strokes to a Van Gogh!
Jamey Burrell / February 1, 2011

I could not agree more with what Joseph said. That first paragraph was perfectly worded. I found myself nodding along with each word.

All the best.
Grace Kelly / February 1, 2011

Never have I been more complimented! Thank you all so much. I can actually remember the very day that glass shattered. It was as if someone let me out of a cage! Amazing. LOVE to all.
Denese Bottrell / February 13, 2011

You could have ended the post with your perspective and it would have been perfect. It is beautifully written. But, I’m so glad you shared the poem. I have to admit, this is the first time I’ve read it in its entirety. It is truly lovely.