A Short Speech on Love.

It is all too easy, when our deepest friendship is torn, to believe all the love has gone out of our lives. To have someone mean so much then mean nothing at all always threatens to tear us apart. Our hearts and heads tell us the same story of hate, lies that our lives have lost meaning, a tunnel vision that threatens to consume us.

When we are broken and sad, it's easy to forget the love in our lives. The love that is true never leaves us; the love of friends; the love of brothers; the love of sisters; the love of mothers; the love of fathers; the love of God. Yet in the midst of the gaping hole in our hearts tormenting us, it is no wonder that all these loves seem to shrink, to not save us from hate, hatred of ourselves and the world.

It's all too easy to dismiss broken love as the folly of the young. Failed love is something one must pick oneself up from with ease, lest they be considered weak by themselves or others.

Rather than seek blame, seek the comfort of love when it has forsaken you in one form. Bonds of friendship, of family, of loving Creator are not bonds easily broken. However, when they are, find the ones in your life who love you and live in the comfort of being cared for. Find meaning in your loved ones; find peace in their arms; find love where it can be found, for it is scarce.