I believe in love. I believe that love is for forever, and I am willing to wait for it.
The problem with our society is that it has lost sight of what love truly is.
"I love you"... so long as you can love me back, so long as you are useful, so long as you do as I desire, as I require. But when you can no longer love me in the way I wish, when it is no longer convenient for me to love you, when you are no longer any use for me, when you begin to hinder my freedom to go about and do as I please whenever I please, then I can no longer love you.
But, as Mother Teresa once put it, for love to be love, it has to hurt.
Love looks like a crucifix.
It hurts.
It isn't easy or convenient.
It means sacrifice.
It is something you choose to do, even when the feeling is gone.
Pope Benedict XVI once said that there is no true love without suffering.
When a man and a woman make their marriage vows before God and the church and the world, they pledge to love each other as long as they live, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, till death do them part.
And they have no idea what they are getting themselves into, by choosing to love.
Children will come, and sickness will come. They may lose their jobs or have a child with a severe handicap or disability. They may get hurt, they may watch their children leave the faith, they may watch their family members and friends grow old, get sick, die. They may lose their children or even each other.
Yes, love hurts.
But in the end, it is worth it.
