True love, pure love looks for ways to express itself. It seeks pathways and highways to deliver whatever kindness, joy, peace, support, and undergirding it can muster to perfect, embrace or comfort the object or person to which it has targeted itself. Unfeigned by the consequences to itself, true love seeks advantage for others. True love must expose itself to the possibility of hurt to express itself fully. Like a peacock who fans its feathers to present a wondrous display of beauty and magnificence, love must be exposed to be effective. This display can take many forms.
Love responds to the predicaments of those around it. Love expresses itself by giving to the effort to fund the supply of food or volunteer in the industry that feeds the hungry. Love prays for the fatherless and widows but expresses itself by exerting an effort to intervene by giving or emotional support. Love not only has empathy or sympathy for the homeless but like the peacock exposes its feathers, love exposes the excess in its purse to contribute to the relief of their hunger and to secure their safety. True love covers all wrongs. Proverbs 10:12 So, without trying to analyze why a person has stumbled into a particular lot in life, love seeks to bring relief to their suffering without judgment.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 Who, but us who are rescued from the sin of our own making, should understand the meaning of true love?

Amen, well done!
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Love is action. Love your neighbor as yourself. Do something!
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