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As powerful emotion, love transcends time and space, moves mountains and often defies reasoning. Love is what lets us accept others for who they are, in spite of flaws or shortcoming.

Love is trust
Trust is the most basic foundation of love; it ensures that a relationship stays strong. Trust needs to be earned to establish ongoing confidence; it's not a given just because of who you are or what you've professed. True lovers both give and receive love.

Love always protects
When you love someone, you open your heart and start to care. You want to remain connected. Anything that concerns the other person will concern you too. The littlest pain and struggle of the person you love troubles you. Love makes you protective without been invasive or controlling.

Love is kind
Kindness enables you to see beyond what the biological eyes take in. Kind people look at happenings in life with sympathy and empathic understanding. Likewise, love is kind and encourages you to respond to life with goodness and thoughtfulness.

Love is never selfish
Instead, love is about knowing how to give and to receive. When you love, you give yourself, unconditionally, to someone else. In return, you're given time, consideration and support. You find pleasure in reaching out. You want to be there for your loved one, and you expect nothing in return.

Love is smart
Love might overlook offenses, but its not corrupt or stupid - love remains you how to behave. Love helps you truly understand the Golden Law - what you sow, is what you reap.

Perseverance is love's virtue
Perseverance is the virtue of standing and pressing on despite the odds. When you love someone truly, you enter into a deep commitment and a very close friendship. No matter what happens, you remain there for the one you love. In return, this person will stand by you when you are down.

Love keeps no records
Healthy love also learns to forgive and move forward, in the realization that harboring resentment is like holding a hot coal of anger - you are the only one who gets burned. Forgiveness is a big part of loving others, as is making it clear to people where your limits lay.

Love even through you may lose
Love never fails, even you feel like it has. Break ups (whether it's a romantic, workplace, business, friendship, etc) can really hurt. Yet, love is worth the effort, even in those times when loss hurts you. For as Alfred Lord Tennyson put it, "it's better to have loved and lose than never to have loved at all."

This is the will of God for you.

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