God's love

2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control (AMP)

It is quite amazing to me that we search much of our lives trying to find the one thing that is right in front of us - LOVE. We do not seem to understand true love changes one outlook on life's landscape, tremendously...It is unconditional. It never changes although we do. It reveals itself to us as we grow, open us to the possibility for the illogical and unfathomable, but love changes not while changing us to be more like Christ.
This love never gave up, or let us go, even though we walk away from it; not thinking we are worthy of it, and uncomfortable with the simple complexity of love, the sheer weight of it, the security of it touch, and the all encompassing of its presence...We too many times get caught up in our own made up world of madness devised in our minds, that no one can get us out it, but us; we think. When all we need to do, it submit and let go to let God . Realize where real love resides, and where it does not. The answer 'lies within each of us', as we let go.. too quickly we forget the promises made because we forgot the mercy, the grace, the blessing, and the unexplainable rescues happening in our lives...We are not where we are by accident, nor is it a random occurrence. There are others who have followed your same path with the same attitude, support, perspective, guidance, and never smelled, embraced, lived, realized, or received the level of success in their life or reprieve in situations. You should have been (fill in the blank), but you did anyway, and they did not..but God!!..Yet, we do not want to love with the Christlike affect because it makes us vulnerable; no one want that. There’s no way you can love and not expose yourself in some way or give something up. Love, risk, and need go together. God’s love compelled Him to create and sacrifice in the same breathe because He know what free will would bring. And still, he created, blessed, provided, and kept us, anyhow. By creating us He also created in Himself a place for us, and that need was reflected many times through the life of Christ. Rem- He, Christ, became vulnerable so we could receive grace, what more can we do need to know we are love unconditionally....God's love is our key to brighter future, the compass for a less tumultuous path, and the light to the forgiving heart that gives and receives simultaneously...