Agape..........Love

Agape, a form of love, is given in spite of how the other person behaves...... 

It is a gift, rather than something that is earned.

 You are not obligated to love. 

This form of real love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.

 Agape love is the readiness to move close to another and allow them to move close to you. Agape is trying to be content with those things that don't live up to your expectations. 

Agape love must be at the heart of any long-term relationship / marriage. 

It's a self giving love that keeps on going even when the other person is unlovable. 

This love will keep the other types of love alive. 

It involves kindness, sympathy, and being thoughtful and sensitive to the needs of your loved one, even when you feel they don't deserve it.

Agape love means to commit yourself without guarantee, to give yourself completely in the hope that your love will produce love in the loved person. 

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. 

The perfect love would be the one that gives all and expects nothing. 

It would, of course, be willing and delighted to receive anything offered back, the more the better. 

But it would ask for nothing......... 

For if one expects nothing and asks nothing, one can never be deceived or disappointed. 

It is only when love demands that it brings pain.

Agape love is an act of the will. 

We choose to love in our hearts and minds. 

Agape love means choosing what is right and best to do rather than what you want or feel like doing. 

Agape love is not determined by our feelings. 

We can't command our feelings.......... 

They come and go....... 

They're like the tide in the ocean; they come in and then recede. 

Don't allow your feelings to be your guide. 

When feelings of love for your partner / spouse are gone, that is when you can learn true love......!

Shalom ......... & Maranatha