2 Misconceptions About Love (according to yesterday’s Gospel and homily):

1. That love is all about doing something.

— Love is not a compulsion or a need of having to always do something for someone. It is not about fulfilling your own desires of making people happy or helping others. It is not about filling up your own personal deficiencies just to feel good. Love is never only about you, you, you. It is a mutual relationship, a give and take relationship.

2. That love is always a good feeling.

— Love is not always pretty. Love is big enough to accommodate pain, disappointments, hurt and frustrations. Love is about sacrifices, of laying down yourself for others.