Many times we ask ourselves "What is Love?" and we make excuses as to what we may think it should be like when really we may not even know. Love is a feeling. Its something that is hard to describe yet we know it exists because we can feel it. Love is not just the butterflies that one may feel when they are around somebody yet it is an action that one may take to serve someone they may care for. We are counseled to date and we have been given suggestions to keep a clear conscious. The apostles have counseled the youth of our day to date with a plan, to date paired off, and to date with the means to do so. In doing these things we find ourselves getting to know the person and getting to become familiar with the attributes we may be looking for in a spouse. Something to be very careful of as we are dating is to ensure ourselves that we are in love and not just misattributed of arousel. As imperfect beings we mistake our feelings to be much more than they may actually be. Butterflies in the stomach, our heart rate racing, and longing to be near them may seem like love when actually it can all be a trick our body is playing on us. We have been counseled to not pray, read our scriptures, and or go to the temple with those whom we are dating so that we don't mistake our spiritual upliftings to be love. The spirit, as well, can make us feel butterflies in the stomach and allow the heart to race etc. yet it is the spirit speaking to us and not Love. There is a difference and we must be very careful when we allow ourselves to fall in love. Love is a privilege and a blessing from the Lord. Let us build friendships and build on that to become something worth fighting for. Love is beautiful and Eternal.
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