Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
Although it hurt to walk away and let him go, I couldn’t watch him suffer any longer…tear drop, tear drop. This is true with anyone or anything you love. You have to know when to let go. I will always remember the wonderful times I spent with my dog and how loyal and faithful he has been to me and my children for over seventeen years.
We all need that type of loyalty and love. I feel for people who’ve never been in love, and have never been loved in returned. I must say I have been blessed to have known love at a young age, and to have been loved by some wonderful people in my life. Yes it hurt deeply when it ended, but I also believe that if it was meant to be it will come back again. No one should ever be deprived of it. Now, I’m not talking about lust. Thank God I know the difference. And thank God I know what “TRUE LOVE” really feels like. And yes, when I love I love hard, and I am a hopeless romantic.
Some love can be wonderful and some can be toxic. Some can give, and some can take. We all may have heard the saying “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” well at the time you don’t feel that way especially when you’ve lost someone you love. We may have also heard that “It takes a fool to learn that Love don’t love nobody.” I will be a fool because I know that true “LOVE” loves everybody.
However, some people just don’t know how to love. There could be a number of reasons why. One reason maybe because they may have heart failure. They fail to have a heart for people. They may have been hurt by someone really badly in their life or no one has ever shown them how. Their hearts may have been hardened to the possibility of finding or giving love. Whatever the reason, I say it is never too late. The Bible says, and I am paraphrasing, if you want a friend you must show yourself to be friendly. Well I also say if you want love you must show yourself to be loveable.
The Bible says in 1 Corn. 13:4-8 nas. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous, love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things endures all things. Love never fails.
Having gone through what I call my, “Season of Loss,” starting with September 11, 2001 most painfully the lost of my mother on Mother’s Day 2009; and other senior members of my family within a period of less than a year. I thank God for one thing and that is he was preparing me for this season. All except one, I’ve lost within this season was blessed to have lived a long productive life and God has given them more than four scores and ten years. All, but one, went on their own terms. Yes, even my dog, Midnight.
The truth is none of us is here to stay. We all have an expiration date. The question is whose life have you touched or made a difference in during your stay on this planet? Have you made someone laugh when they were sad? Have you been a loyal and true friend, a good mother, father, daughter, or son, husband or wife? Did you reach out to someone in need? Or have you been selfish or ungrateful and think the world always revolves around you and what you want and need?
I’m not a fan of the movie “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” Not because of the actors or because it was a bad movie, but because of the abuse. I’m also not a fan of the title. You see love has everything to do with it. Love gave His only begotten son so that we might have a right to the tree of life. Love showed us how to love one another. Love wanted to stay but knew He had to go to fulfill His purpose so that we can fulfill ours. Love died on a cross for my sins. Love knew when to let go. Love will come back again and take us with Him. Love never dies. THANK YOU JESUS!
