Boundaries of Love?!?!?!

     Another human boundary is that of "love"! But wait! Does love have boundaries? Isn't there some saying somewhere that says something like "if you love someone then anything goes"?!?!? Or how about the thought that "If you love me, you'll do anything for me"? And the world's opinion of love nowadays seems to allow for anything AND everything; no holds barred! But is that what love is really all about! Allowing your passions and physical desires and/or emotions to run wild with whatever one can dream up? Is that really love?

     What is love then? Is love the passion of the moment? Sometimes we think so and let our lives be controlled by that passion. But what happens when the passion dies? Does true love ever really die? True sincere devoted love does not die because the ones involved in that love choose to do whatever GOOD and UPLIFTING thing they can to deepen and strengthen that love! And that kind of love is really what love is all about! It may have passion, but it is controlled passion!! It does have boundaries! It respects others and their feelings! It tries to understand! It is patient! Ah, may I quote a scripture about what TRUE LOVE, which can also be referred to as charity, which is the pure love of Christ, is all about? A love we should all be aiming for! But  consider these boundaries that also explain what love is: It "suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." (Moroni 7:45) Those are qualities of true love and also can teach us the proper boundaries that have to do with sincere, uplifting, even life-giving love!

     We have seen with all the boundaries we have talked about that disasters of many kinds occur when those boundaries are ignored. So what happens when love's boundaries are ignored? Technically we could just take the opposite of what the above scripture shared with us! For example what would be the opposite of suffering long? Could it be letting your anger get the best of you that can eventually turn into physical and emotional abuse among other things!? One of the opposites of kind is cruel and love is quickly destroyed by cruelty as well as the persons themselves! If we envy we are always looking at others and what we want that they have instead of counting our blessings. That creates a negative void that destroys lives through depression, despair and frequently death! A puffed up person is proud and generally speaking, proud people are not willing to admit their fault in anything, dumping all the blame on others, which again can lead to abuse, depression and death! Selfishness is never love because love looks to bless and uplift others along with its own positive and joyous efforts to uplift itself in righteous ways. Easily provoked goes along with no long suffering and leads to the same end! Evil thoughts and embracing iniquity instead of truth always leads down a path built by Satan to destroy  as many people as he can in as many ways as imaginable! Someone not willing to bear all things becomes weak and easily torn apart emotionally and spiritually and the path only goes downhill after that! One who doesn't believe, doubts and is always full of doubts and suspisions! Without hope one falls into depression and despair and we have already stated what can happen then. If we can't learn to endure to the end, then the end will come for us in ways that are not very pleasant. These are just a few of my ideas about not honoring the boundaries of love. I am sure you can find many more on your own as you think about it. And as with all boundaries there are small misfortunes for ignoring them, but as anyone can see they can and will lead to greater and greater disaster not only for the person who breaks the boundaries of love, but for those who he supposedly loves and many others in his life.