Love

Love.

One of dictonary.com's most searched definitions.

What does it mean?

NOUN
1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. sexual passion or desire.
4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love? 

That's all.
Love is just a feeling.

What are we looking for, all of those people who Google 'the meaning of love', or whatever?
Maybe some want a dictionary definition.  Maybe some just want to be told that love is a warm feeling.

But I don't think so.

Love isn't a feeling.  Love is a lifestyle.  Love is action.  Love is sacrifice.  Love is hope.  Love is to keep going, and going.  Love is when you don't think it can do any good.  Love is when there's no feeling left at all, and all there is is emptiness.  Love is when you want to hate the person, but you force yourself to want the best for them anyway.
Love can break your heart.

That is love.

Do you think Christ had this 'tender, passionate affection' for humanity, when he died for us?
Did he show a warm feeling toward the money-changers at the temple?  A warm feeling when he rebuked the Sadducees and Pharisees? 
Do you think we cause Jesus to feel affectionate love for us, when we shun him, and hammer nails into his hands every day with our sins?

But he died a horrible death, to save the very people who made him die.

That is love.

~Shadoe Dystopya