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"Intense love does not measure, it just gives" - Mother Teresa
What is lust, what is love? There is a root difference between the two.
Lust = External
Lust is drawn to the appeal of something that ensures (or appears to ensure) some level of self-fulfillment-it takes and is self-serving. So when that something no longer fulfills what Lust signed up for, Lust will search for something else to fill its insatiable desire to remain comfortable.
Love = Internal
Love gives. Giving is its identity. It is like a broken fire hydrant; you stand close to it, you get wet. That's regardless of the identity, action, or thoughts of the person close enough to feel it. When people encounter real love, their lives change.
G.K. Chesterton speaks to the core of love in his poem, "A Prayer in Darkness",
This much, O heaven—if I should brood or rave, Pity me not; but let the world be fed, Yea, in my madness if I strike me dead, Heed you the grass that grows upon my grave. If I dare snarl between this sun and sod, Whimper and clamour, give me grace to own, In sun and rain and fruit in season shown, The shining silence of the scorn of God. Thank God the stars are set beyond my power, If I must travail in a night of wrath, Thank God my tears will never vex a moth, Nor any curse of mine cut down a flower. Men say the sun was darkened: yet I had Thought it beat brightly, even on—Calvary: And He that hung upon the Torturing Tree Heard all the crickets singing, and was glad.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
People who encounter and choose to live in love, experience a full and rich life.
Grow in character and watch your relationships improve.