We celebrate it. We write songs and poetry about it. We practice it. It’s called love, and we grossly underestimate the power it represents.

Love gives us joy. Love stimulates chemical and physiological responses in our bodies. Love gives us the courage to risk our own well-being to safeguard our loved-ones. Love inspires us to sacrifice. Love causes us to work harder to provide for our spouse and children.

Love gives us joy, but it can also cause us great emotional pain. Love causes us grief when we loses a loved-one. Love causes us anguish when a loved-one choses to stray or when our children dismiss our advice and chose a bad path.

Love causes us pain when we lose a treasured pet, or even when we witness the mistreatment or harm to an innocent animal

When we take it all into consideration, we might recognize that love is much more than a feeling. It is a force, an energy. It is, perhaps, the most powerful force in nature. It is, in fact, the energy that keeps it all together.

One of the most profound quotes from the Bible begins – “For God so loved the world…”

Those few words alone speak volumes. God, the creator of the world, loves His creation and all its inhabitants.

And that, is the true power of love.