Thoughts on Love, Marriage, and Divorce.

Love.

-Love is not just a feeling, an emotion.
-It's not just that warm, fuzzy, butterfly feeling in your gut, or the smile they bring to your face.
-Love is choosing to put the other person first, their needs, wants, and desires above your own.
-it's choosing to show thoughtful actions towards another person whether they deserve it or not, and whether you "feel" like it or not
-Love is going out of your way just to show someone else you care about them.
-Love is telling the truth, even when it isn't pretty.
-Love is doing the right thing, even when it hurts.
-Love does not waver in the face of adversity, it perseveres through the storm.
-Time does not make love fade, but makes it grow stronger.
-Love is the opposite of being selfish or self absorbed - Love thinks of others first.

Marriage.

-Marriage is the beautiful, holy union between a man and wife.
-Marriage is pure, sanctified before God.
-Marriage is more than a party, a celebration, beyond the wedding.
-Marriage is the the end of two lives for the beginning of a new one.
-Marriage is forever. Permanent, "until death do we part".
-Marriage is founded on true love, and the love of our Savior.
-Marriage is not supposed to be misused, misunderstood, warped, or twisted in any way out of it's intended fashion - yet that is what the world has done.

Divorce.

-Divorce is ugly.
-Divorce is cruel.
-Divorce splits families and hearts in two.
-Divorce is painful.
-Divorce leaves a scar on both people, because it is taking the two become one flesh, and tears them in two again.
-Divorce denies love.
-Divorce is the tempter - the "easy way out"
-Divorce is cowardly.
-Divorce is just plain wrong.

God is the only giver of perfect love. When we are right with Him, and focused on Him, everything else falls into place.