The insatiable longing for love...

We all long for love, don't we? It seems inextricably woven into our beings. It is manifests itself in our constant striving towards relationship--of all kinds. We are born into relationship. People buy pets, pore their life into them, love them, care for them and ultimately lose them. We form friendships, spend time investing into people, loving, caring, sharing, bearing (alright, a little too rhyme happy). We long for the romantic catch and pursuit; we hope and we contrive, we wait, and hopefully and eventually obtain. I assert that all such things are a testament to our universal yearning for love--deep, true, honest love. Humanity is built, created with an unquenchable desire to be wanted--for exactly who we are--and we pursue this desire in whatever means happens to suit us, yet we often seem to avoid the One who can truly satisfy...