LOVE LOST

"...it's better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all..."
a quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam:27, 1850.

While I am not one to get into a literary debate, I have come to realize that it does seem foolish to speculate on the meaning of words written without asking the author.  The main reason why you need the Spirit of God it truly understand the Word of God.  It is too easy to misinterpret a poem or song about love, I have often found myself purposely looking at various songs in a different light simply by taking an interpretation of my own.  Too often it is the very sensually pleasing ballads that have misguided us hopeless (or hopeful) romantics from decades.

 Like the show of the same name, the "lost" nature of our love lives are ripe with the drama that makes for "good television."   

Just as a explorer who seeks to find ice in the mouth of a volcano, so do we seek to find love in a den of lust.  

The lie is wrapped up in the idea of physical "love making" or the foreshadowing of such activity.  The end result is that many are led into confusion because of the desire to touch and be touched.  This leads to the perceived notion of having obtained love and then lost it.

The problem is that we normally have never experienced love to begin with, at least not perfect love.  Those of us who are lucky realize and look for (even attempt to share) a similar figure or shadow of the real love we received from our parents, but then even that is tainted by the imperfections of both our parents and ourselves lack of ability to love 100% perfectly.  Let me stop rambling and just restate the main idea, which is that we could never have loved and lost if we never loved in the first place and those who feel connected to that line from Tennyson have grasped a hollow shell of love and found sorrow in losing it.  If only they would seek after REAL LOVE we will find that there is never a loss of it.

If Love defines GOD, maybe you should ask Him for directions on HOW TO LOVE

We can all can use at least a little improvement in the area of showing love to each other.

If you have issues with sadness and depression over powering you because you are lacking love, I suggested that you look that the things you love and adjust accordingly.

Psalm 45:7
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of joy...