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What is the definition of love? And how many times have people asked that? Or thought it? Or discussed it? Or stayed up at night wondering when it would happen? Or what you did to lose it? Or how you can find it? Or why it's a mystery.

Because it is.. it is a mystery.

It's like a known, a word used chronically, but the greatest unknown.

How could anyone ever feel like they know what love is? Love has unlimited meanings. It is limitless.

You can write love, feel love, sing love, scream love, act love, be love, show love, take love, steal love, make love, sow love, dream love... it's crazy how much love was, is and will be.

It's one of the only things that has been in existence since before time began.

I personally had my first encounter with love as a baby. My parents loved me. My sisters loved me. My family loved me. But as you grow up, you see the other side of love. You experience when people choose not love one another, but do much the opposite. Then comes your first "real" love. Whatever that may look like. And most of the time, your "first love" ends. Then you doubt the love that you have for yourself. Then love becomes a mystery where you suddenly become confused on if you even believe it exists.

This is a strange blog for me. Because I'm not a "mushy", "girly" kind of person.

But this has been on my heart.

Love is not defined by what we think it is. It was, is, and will be as it is now until the end of time, whether we realize it or not.

I am finally beginning to let love show me what it is.
To let God show me what love is.
To let Him give me what love is.

Love is not what we dream of when we're little girls trying on our mother's shoes and imagining what our wedding will be like.

Love is what the Savior has done in order for us to even receive love.

The rest is the mystery, but love is not a mystery.