What's love got to do with it....

Every once in awhile I like to let people know what the hell I'm talking about. This is one of those times.

When I use the word love, I am definitely NOT talking about "romantic love." "Romantic love" is lust in it's Sunday go to meetin' clothes. When I mean lust or sex, I will say lust or sex.

When I use the word love, I am definitely NOT talking about a relationship of any style or model. There are many words to describe relationships, but love isn't one of them. A relationship is a thing. Love is a way of being.

When I use the word love, I mean accepting people for the way they are and the way they are not. Love has no demands, requires no changes and never requires reciprocity.

Love is not an action or set of behaviors. It is a state of being that calls forth grace (I'll define that one another time). Love is not the opposite of hate, it is the opposite of indifference.

Love is a way of being that calls the lover into actions that promote wellbeing of self and of others.

There is no love where these is violence. There is no love where there is competition. There is no love where there is intolerance.

That's what I mean when I say love. Okay?

You, the one reading this. I love you.

Love, peace and justice.