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Reflection About Love

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Love
For me, Love is the driving force in my life. But first, let's start from the beginning, with this passage from the bible, that reads, We love because he first loved us (1 John 4:19). So for me consequently love’s the most important core value in my life. This began with someone who was very close to me: my grandmother who was the first person to actually speak with me about love and faith to be honest.

Growing up, I lived with her throughout my childhood an she would talk about having faith in the Lord and how God's unconditional love would always be with me. She was a very strict and loving woman of God an when she spoke on these topics, I knew just how important they were, not just because of what she was saying but because of …show more content…

Why wasn’t this woman stopped. Thank God, she wasn’t and with good reason just take a look at how things turned out for me, a little tattered with a few bruises but still functional.

Was she doing this intentionally? Of course she was. She was making sure I understood what, love was and what’s required of it so that I would be familiar with it. But my mother’s love carries well, how should I say this a hardcore love appeal, with rigid and beautiful sentiments. She was stern, but yet graceful for some of our misdeeds around the house, “ she loved us so”. So as you can see early on in my childhood, I was being groomed For tackling this thing called love. And at time I didn’t handle it as well as I could. Now I look back over all the memories we shared and the many teachings from this old woman, and I remember how she cultivated my heart into what it is now, and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention God just one more time, that it was His love that she was showing me, through those precious nights I shared seated at her feet. I remember the days when I wanted both of them to stop, mom and grandma, but lately I wish then it could go on until day’s end.
Oh! How this world could use that kind of love today. But If you haven’t noticed by now, I believe I’ve reinforced the fact about this love that I speak of has truly convinced me to be a good and upstanding man; it shows my integrity as a

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