From the works of JJ Owens, Promises
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE Have you ever found yourself in love just for the sake of Love itself? Love does possess a power and life of its own. First, to capture one's passion, then with a self-giving ability, it creates truth and inspires virtue. It constrains the will, quickens the senses and challenges motive and intentions. Self-denial and personal sacrifice are her distinguishing characteristics. Love unconditional is that rare and precious gift. It occurs once, maybe twice in a lifetime. It finds one in ten thousand. Never to be misconstrued with the self-serving, self-seeking common-place events so wrongfully taken for loving relationships. Whether short lived or given to longevity, such mutual manipulations of mind and body can but hold dull, dimming reflections in tarnished wares held in comparison to Love's cherished crystal clear brilliance, marked