someone told me this quite awhile back, but the truth of it didnt really weigh in as heavily until i was just randomly musing on things today.

Love is giving someone the power to hurt you but trusting him/her not to.
John Albert Halili

it's true isn't it? that's why above so many other things that we may prize, love's the one intangible that so many people, lyrics, books, movies... wax lyrical over, pine for, dream about, chase after, feel so much pain for. i guess that's why sometimes i'm so perplexed as to why it's treated so flippantly and oft bungled about.

there're always 2 flipsides to the same coin and i guess the same applies for this too. people talk about the many-splendored thing that love as a concept is yet i guess in the very same vein there's hesitation and more than a good bout of fear too. maybe fear's the wrong word, wariness and measured cautiousness would be more apt. sometimes i'ld look around me and wonder if i'm still a wee child, as yet untouched and unfounded to this weighty gift that seems to mature all who are bestowed with it.

maybe that's why brooke fraser's song, love is waiting resonates within me. when it's time to walk that way, we wanna walk it well. and well in God's line of plan as well, walking with Him holding both our hands and leading us in His ways.

1 Corinthians 13:13 sings the same tune as well, And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love cause God first showed the true, ultimate epitome of love by sending our Redemption, to give us all a Hope, a Purpose and eternal fellowship with a God that so loves us (:

haha i'm maturing am i not? :P