Some high school sophomores offered definitions of love.  “Life is one thing after another.  Love is two things after each other,” said one.  Another wrote: “Love is the feeling in your stomach of butterflies wearing roller skates.”  The one that took the prize was this: “Love is that feeling you feel when you feel you are going to have a feeling you have never felt before.”

We laugh at that -- at least a chuckle.  So adolescent!  But most of the people I know who are having trouble in their marriages have working definitions of love not far from these.  Love is made up of those feelings and emotions generated by physical attractions and a desire to satisfy sexual, emotional, and security needs.

But love is far more.  It is decision.  It is something you do -- an act of will that gives itself unselfishly for the good and enrichment of another.

How are you doing in your love life?