Believing in the Sometimes Uncertainty of Love

It can be difficult to love. It's easy on Valentine's Day to buy someone a gift, especially because we are [image error]surrounded by more materialistic ideas than we know what to do with. That's just one day though. What about the rest of the year when we aren't being bombarded with reminders?

What's challenging about love is that there is an uncertainty to it. Love is not always stable nor do we always feel secure about it. It sometimes feels hard to love people who hurt us (and late this week we'll discuss forgiveness which is part of that).

Telling someone we love them for the first time can leave us feeling vulnerable because we are afraid they might not reciprocate. But it also can be difficult because past experience leaves us feeling jaded. We don't want to love because we don't want to hurt but part of loving someone means that we could be hurt.

It took me a long time to realize that life truly is about love. Because of my experiences, I felt that maybe my life wasn't about love while I watched others around me living it in in ways that I didn't have in my own life. But I have learned that there is nothing more true or more real than love, even when it feels foreign.