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Love is in the Air!
By Humorist and Novelist, Robbie Lamberson
Aww… love! It’s in the air, on every technical device, shelves are filled with boxes of candy tempting you to take to a sweetheart, and cards written by modern poets beg to be delivered to waiting loved ones. The color pink, in all its different hues, is everywhere, and in every shop window. I think the word for all this hullabaloo is commercialism.
For those of you in my age group, remember the movie Casablanca? The endearing words of the theme song have lasted through generations. “The world will always welcome lovers as time goes by…” Now, that is a song that stays in your mind forever! I’ve watched that beloved movie at least fourteen times and each time I want to change the ending. I can’t help myself, I’m a hopeless romantic!
So let’s slow down and take a few moments to contemplate what love is and what it means to us individually. Looking at the big picture, the emotional response we call “love” keeps us from doing evil things to one another. True love is filled with feelings of compassion, devotion, the need to protect and serve, and an endless desire to please the object of our affection.
The Good Book tells us, “Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.” If we could only inscribe that onto our hearts and into our consciousness what a world this would be!
We have developed such a throw-a-way society; it has become imbedded into our thinking, including our relationships. Fortunately there are always exceptions. I am blessed to know couples whose marriages lasted for over fifty, sixty, and even one that lasted over seventy years! I personally was married for fifty-three years before my husband died. My daughter, bless her sweet heart, has been married for a total of thirty-eight years (albeit that span is shared by all five of her husbands). Thankfully, she has been married for over twenty years to my absolute favorite son-in-law. He’s a keeper!
Traditional marriages still are the most popular norm, but as a society we don’t seem to be able to hang onto those “loving feelings” forever, as previous generations did. I’ve tried to figure out why this is, and I’ve come up with a theory.
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