thought #100- this is love

it's never always easy, it's never always straightforward, it's never always a fairy tale mutuality and waking up with animals at your bedside chirping in your ear their good mornings, it's never always simple, it's never always figured out, it's never always "this heart comes with instructions," it's never always bliss, it's never always in accordance to plan, it's never always encouraging, it's never always painless, it's never always safe, it's never always familiar, it's never always certain, it's never always trustworthy, it's never always what we always thought it would be.

but the beauty, veracity, life lies in the very notion of waking up each morning to a person you don't always feel like loving yet choose to stay for you know love is not the emotion attached to the person but the human itself. or when one or both of you become offended or hurt by each other yet have the selflessness and humility to learn from such a bruise. or when rebuke is repaid with rebellion only to realise you made the mistake and have the courage to apologise. or when you're frightened to confront or stand for what you believe in or have the guts to walk out of a relationship that is detrimental, but do so anyway with not blind confidence but faith or when history began through a sacrifice and the blood of a Saviour who, out of the abundance of his heart, breathed not religion but life into the world.

this is love.

love,

p.s. this photo made me chuckle.

p.p.s. triple digits woo. 

p.p.p.s. notice the absence of sappy shit commonly associated to love. sorry but you may have mistaken them for lust or hormones?