We just do not understand Love

"Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits." ---William Shakespeare

Love [luhv] -- a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

There it is the official definition of love when used as a noun. Why is it that we humans screw this up so badly? Imagine for a moment if the Lord managed to screw up this most important part of life. How long would this world last? Perhaps, love for a child is far greater than any other type of love.

Look at divorce statistics or perhaps, like me, you can just draw on personal experience. Why is it that two people set out on a journey together and for reasons unknown allow outside influences to seek out and destroy that relationship? Many times the two in love see the world from two completely different lenses.

I find it odd that after a relationship marriage or otherwise, we humans confess that we would have absolutely no interest in the person with whom we were once involved. Perhaps it comes down to personal growth. I know in my own experience, we desired different outcomes for the future. Our individual personal growth charts no longer charted the same course.

On this Father’s day, my heart goes out to all the fathers that desired to, but were not able to spend time with their children due to failed relationships. Fortunately, I traded a custody day to spend time with my beautiful children on Father’s day. It was a wonderful morning filled with smiles and laughter. As mentioned above, as our Father in Heaven knows, there is nothing quite like the love for a child.

I am so grateful that I am able to share my beautiful children and have once again found love. Our personal growth charts are more appropriately aligned and the negative and destructive outside influences that were present on both sides of my past relationship have been removed. I look forward to a brilliant future filled with love, laughter and personal growth.

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." ---Leo Buscaglia

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." ---Henry Ward Beecher