Love is a Giving Thing

Today, I am thinking about love and how much it cost to love someone.  I am thoroughly convinced that people fall in love just for the feeling of being loved back.  Let's be real.  People get divorced at alarming rates because the significant other is not significant anymore.  People fall in love and they fall out of love.  I don't necessarily agree that it is about love.  I think it is about not being able to receive what they think they deserve.  When you are doing all of the giving and the other person is doing all of the taking you get tired of serving yourself on a platter.  It is truly sad when you realize that a person in your life will never be able to return the love you have given to them.  Sometimes, emotionally, they just can't.  They are mentally ill or emotionally dysfunctional.  You will always be sending cards and flowers that are met with indifference.  I am in a place like that.  Most of the people in it, don't know how to love.  They take and don't say "Thank You".  They reap where they don't sow.  Somehow, it is in their minds that they are entitled to get what you have without being grateful.  Well, I realized that love is a giving thing.  You can't really give something away if you expect something in return.  Jesus healed all of the lepers but only one returned with gratitude.  That did not stop him from healing all of them.  You do this knowing that most will not be grateful and many will not return.  You ask, then why love.  You love because in the end, God will make everything right.  He will reward you.  He will place a crown on your head and he will validate you by saying, "Well Done".  The old folks said that you are sending up your timber for your mansion in the sky.  Love is a giving thing.