Love is an action

 The Maze Game

We play our game

In the maze we are safe

Fear leads the field 

Yet the walls are high

No way to lose the fight

Everything we have is inside

Sheltered as it seems

In the light we are frail as can be

Time does not stand still

We must show our might

And step outside

Our courage saves the tears from falling in vain. 

Kandi K Wolfmeyer, 2002

I write words. Words that are void of emptiness. Verbs are meant for action. We say them to state the purpose. An action we are going to take. What if we treated love as an action? A verb rather than just a noun. We throw it out with no purpose. However, it has a purpose. It requires action. 

   A word. It's just a word. However, some words matter. A word that can save and destroy. Destroy when it's used as just a word. Expectations are placed when we use this word. It requires action. 

    We place walls so high. We might say we love but act as if we don't. Are we there? Like a mother to a child? Ready to battle the struggles? Ready to stand firm, mercifully in that love. Do we just leave when things get rough? Do we think this is beyond my ability? We have lost sight of what love really means. 

    I have watched over several days. Love poured out for a person who recently died. Where was this love when they were alive? Would it save the outcome? If a person is actually loved it saves. When we use it emptily it destroys. We say I love you but are never there. It can be thrown out so much in that emptiness. A person would eventually believe love is nothing. They are nothing. When love is given correctly, they have no trust in it. 

  Have we given love and it was not returned? Do we remember that feeling? Have we said I love you and weren't there? Surely we are all guilty. It is just a word. 

    I'm a mother. My children are different. When you use words they better not be empty. They use words as an absolute. My youngest says she loves me. She will absolutely prove it in her action. My other daughter does not use many words. Her actions say her words. I ponder this. They know what love is. The proper use of the this word. Even though they have come across the misuse. When somebody is not there. Yet have said this word. They have no understanding of being empty in words. It is completely foreign. 

    Are we going to funerals regretful? We wished that we showed, proved our feelings. We play a game. Keep are walls high. All those times where empty love given. We add bricks. The bricks prevent us from acting. 

    I learned this early on. I want to love like it's the only action I need to do. I want to love like Jesus loved Peter. Knowing He will be disappointed. Knowing Peter can't return it the same way. Can we take those bricks down. What is on the other side? Are we willing to risk it? 

     My daughters don't know how to build this wall. They don't have those abilities. This leaves them vulnerable. However, we can help. We can help those vulnerable. When we use that word show it. In fact, we can just use our actions and they don't need the word. We should feel it pouring out. Love is an action.