I am currently reading The Purpose Driven Life, and the last chapter I read was about love. We were put here to love each other. It isn't one of our purposes in life, it IS our purpose. There is a quote I love that says, "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." As Christians, we could say SON instead of sun.
Really though, what else is there to life other than love? We can't take anything with us when we die. Who wants to be a millionaire if they don't have anyone to spend their life with, and enjoy that money with? Who wants to own huge houses, and boats, and other toys, and use them alone?
When I was growing up, my mom always told my sister and I that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want doesn't mean they aren't loving you the only way they know how, or with all they have. When I was little, we would do Kris Kringle baskets at Christmas time. It was basically Secret Santa. We would decorate baskets and hang them on the wall. Then, on Christmas Eve, we would all open our baskets and try to guess who our Secret Santa was. I remember one year, my brother, Nathan, opened his. It was FULL of little notes that said, "I love you." He said, "I know who I got...Claire." It was funny. It probably wasn't what he was hoping was in his basket, but I was only 5 or 6 though. I was giving him all I had at the time, and it was all my love.
Kurt Vonnegut said, "a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."...not just those who are easy to love. One thing I would always hear from people visiting Alaska is that the people are so friendly. You can bet that if you break down on the side of the road, or get stuck in a ditch, someone will stop to help you. How different would our world be if it was lie this everywhere?
