Re-Writes..."Love"

"...and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words..." - william faulkner

"what is love? i guess that depends on who you're asking. my idea of love probably differs from everyone else's. because love is a concept i think it's relative. like many different things, opinions of its meaning vary in degrees due to perspective. i look at love like this. i believe love is ultimate sacrifice. where i was willing to lose everything to lose everything, including my family, possessions, status, etc. for that person. even lose my life. so that's how i've come to this conclusion. for me, love is the idea of me dying for another person, knowing that if jesus came that day he wouldn't be coming to take me back to heaven with him. loving someone enough to risk my eternal future. knowing that sacrificing myself at a time when i wasn't being the best christian, no, person i could be and that i wasn't ready for judgment. that maybe the day after i died was the day i was supposed to finally turn my life around. started living the bible, preaching the gospel and readying myself for christ's return. maybe it was supposed to be two weeks later. or six months. maybe never. but in an instant i made a choice based on the time we'd spent together and the feelings i had for that person and substituted my life for theirs. without hesitation, without forethought, without doubt. putting my salvation in jeopardy. that's love, at least that's what i think."

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