Love Actually - Part 1: Knowing Fully

This last weekend we talked on "real love" and the difference between actual love and imaginary love. The two main points:
1. We imagine what love will be for us and what someone can give us placing our expectations on them even if we don't know them. The issue with this is we never let the person be who they are and the love we create is fake.
2. We need to start loving people by getting to know them by "listening patiently" and "sharing honestly." This is to better help us be real.
PHIL'S THOUGHTS: I find it too easy to be rapped up in emotion and operate only on what "feels good" and not really think things through. We are filled with so many questions about other people and what they think of us that we focus to much on ourselves. In doing this, we create relationships that are very thin and do not hold up in the long run. What ends up happening is we get hurt or hurt someone else. I think it is our responsibility to make a difference by really getting to know people and giving them the opportunity to be known. On top of that, it is even more important to let God fully see who we are and share our life with him.