This is last week’s Composition homework:
Love is an emotion that comes from your heart and soul. It is a deep, soft emotion. Love is not just warm and fuzzy, though. It is a way of living. If you didn’t have love, this sad and tired world would be crumbling. Love makes the earth spin round.
Love is sweet. It tastes like a strawberry sucker on your tongue. Love lets you feel compassion and tells you to take care of homeless and sick people. I know that sometimes it feels as if love is bitter, like a lemon, because you don’t want to do what it tells you to do. But trust me, once you do whatever sweet thing it tells you, you will feel happier than you have ever felt.
Love is a feeling. When you love somebody, you feel happy and excited. Your insides feel warm and your hands feel shaky. Your heart beats out loud, pounding in your chest and jumping through your shirt. Your mind is lost in a world of its own, swirling with the fact that somebody loves you. You want to jump with glee. It feels as if you are running through a meadow covered in morning dew. It is a fresh, ecstatic feeling.
Love is a thought. It brings bright, bubbling, new ideas from your mind. It makes your thoughts soar into a fairytale land of princes and princesses who fall in love. Your heart is as happy and light as it can be. Your head spins as you try to uncover the mystery of love.
Love is deep. You feel it when someone is hurt or sad. Love travels from the top of your heart to the bottom of your soul. It stretches around you like a cozy blanket. It envelops you with a soft, radiant glow. Love pushes its way onto all the people that surround you. Love makes you complete.
Do you know how we have the ability to love as you described? God gave us this ability and models it every day in his agape love for us. All of the beautiful qualities of love that you have described are gifts to us out of the bounty of His love for us. You have definitely captured the essence of the kind of love God wants us to experience and give to others.