Is it love or lust? Once they are conceived, at least when they are born, it is love and to break the bond between a child and his/her family is the worst thing that anyone can ever do. But you can have too many. 2.4 is, I believe, the optimum level where the worlds population is replacing itself but not increasing. Less and it is reducing. I believe that in Italy it is 1.3, but I could well be wrong.
Children can be one of God's greatest gifts and yet they can cause us the most grief ...not that most try to deliberately annoy or disappoint us but that is just a human reality...It has been said that one raises children with roots and wings. Roots to be stable and grow and with wings so they can one day fly away from our influence... How hard it is to stand back and let them make their own decisions and not interfere... yet, that is what a good parent must learn to do because none of us desire to be forty and having a parent that still demands the right to tell us what to do!! Isn't that what they call agape love, that self-sacrificing love that desires what is best for the other person not what is best for us?!
The price of love is grief. How right that is. Said on behalf of the Queen at a remeberance ceremony in New York for the victims of the twin towers atrociity.
Never were expectations so richly fulfilled. If love survives then you have the most beautiful gift of all. In science, I am told, nothing is ever destroyed. It is only converted into something else. Is love like that? I think it is. It is never destroyed. If love is never destroyed, then what about hate? Is that destroyed?
There is such a fine line between such emotions like love and hate that sometimes its hard to tell the difference between the two. Personally, i think hate eventually turns into love. remember the old phrase: love to hate?
