Luv is a verb

So this morning I was listening to this song by DC Talk. "duh duh, Down with the DC Talk"

They have this song called "luv is a verb". Love, now that's a topic that every high school guy and girl wishes he or she understood.

I ate lunch with my Bible teacher Mr. Herbert today, and we talked about the good old drama from last year's 8th grade. Now, I'm not saying I wasn't a part of this but, there was a large misunderstanding of love. There was Mr. Tharp's love in high school: "Oh, Omish girl, Oh, Omish girl." There's the classic: "She loves me, she loves me not," as the poor 9th grader strips a poor flower of it's petals. It seems sort of like in the 70's with the hippies: "Love flows. It's an emotion. It brings good vibes."

Yeah right. With this view of love it just spells bad news. I was watching TV today and there was that health safety commercial that came on. From watching that today and listening to Mr. Tharp (loved those poems by the way) I found out that that kind of love can bring many things... two of those being meningitis and... hilarious poems that you can entertain insanely hyper freshmen with on a Friday.

Now as satisfactory as those options seem, they just don't seem to make the cut. I think DC Talk was right. Love is a verb. It's a deep-down heart-wrenching thing where you put yourself lower than that person you love and bring them higher. Greater love was found in a man LAYING DOWN HIS LIFE for us. It wasn't "feeling sorry for us" or "dreaming about us". No, it was physically going out and doing something. That's love. Where do I see love? I see love in a soldier in a Iraq FIGHTING for freedom so that we can have ours. I see young people SERVING in a soup kitchen to help the needy. I see my mom PRAYING for others while she is in the midst of cancer. I see my dad WORKING in the office to provide for my family. I see a man LAYING DOWN HIS LIFE for all humankind so that we might experience Heaven. Love is courageous. So, let's not feel love for each other. Let's GO LOVE each other. Luv is a verb.

My hair is normal now by the way. Here's the before and after: