Does Love Know No Bounds?

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I've blogged previously about all you need is love. I've long questioned what is TRUTH?
Anita and I are going through a tumultuous storm that life has thrown at us and I will neither blame a deity for the disaster that Myasthenia Gravis is or thank a deity for the progress made with the treatments endured. I trust in science.

Ahhh but Love... Love is the answer regardless of the final outcome. 

I have found, within me, strength to endure and serve the one that I love more than any other ever, with all I have to give.

I have the ability to catch a second wind. I have to ability to go sleepless and press on. I have the ability and the duty to do everything possible to make Anita's life the best it can possibly be.

We learned a lot during a week's stay in the hospital. We questioned everything and were often frustrated when we didn't get satisfactory answers if an answer at all. There is nothing more frustrating than seeing a loved one suffer. You want immediate relief to their suffering and your own anguish.

Here we are, please fix this and do it now!

In hind sight, a lot of it is understandable. It just wasn't easy to endure the eye of the storm.

Love wants to take the pain and suffering from the loved one enduring it and cast it upon our self.

I may not believe in deities and despise organized religion, but in my experience with it, I feel that it was a stepping stone to a higher place.  Some have remarked I must have never truly known the love of their savior.  What I've known and retained is that I was led to it to be set free from it. And the single most significant issue at it's core is love.

Not grace.

That would require accepting guilt and shame for being born human.

And that love can indeed conquer all.
That love is the answer.
That love seeks not it's own, is kind and self sacrificing.

Though love is perfect, our ego tends to over do it and often hinder the desired result. Like a hovering parent. Or like me... food is one of my love languages and if you leave it to me, rather than just satiate you, I'll subject you to a possibility of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity or worse.

Mature love knows bounds. Mindless love knows no bounds. I could easily do nearly everything for Anita and slow her recovery. I'd literally spoon feed her and then carry her to the bathroom if she needed it or allowed me to. (BTW, it's amazing how quick she can move without a cane when she's gotta go!)

It's a journey, this thing we call life and the best years of my nearly sixty years have been since I met Anita.  Two months ago we were traipsing around the streets of the French Quarter with good friends. Today we battle circumstances you'd never wish upon anyone.

Love will give us the strength to endure. Love will draw us closer than ever amid the chaos. Love will win irregardless of the distance or the outcome.

Thank you love. Thank you for encouraging people to have passion to find solutions to what makes people suffer.

I've said it before and I'll say it forever, "Anita is the most wonderful person I've ever known." That sparks the desire in me, the love in me to be all I can be and do all I can do, to make her life experience better.

I'll succeed at knowing I matter and made a difference for the better, in my life because of the boundless love and bound love I have for her.