Love means something different to everybody. For me personally, I really do believe that love is all you need, whether it be the love shared between a parent and their child, best friends, siblings or a couple. The following verse from the Bible, read at my parent's renewal of vows ceremony, perfectly sums up what love is to me:
Corinthians 13: 4-13
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
My idea of love can also be summed up by the poem written by Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, which she read at her friend's wedding. The words are beautifully written and every time I hear it, I think of Andrew and I.
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