It's something that everyone wants, but when they have it , it's taken for granted. If you have a diamond, the size of a baseball you would guard it with your life. You would polish it and put it in a safe place, so that no-one could take it from you. If you had an old classic automobile, mint condition and all original, you would wax and polish it, tune it and keep it mechanically inclined. You would make sure it was safe from all scratches and harm. So why it it, when we are given the most valuable and greatest gift of all, the gift of love, we take it for granted.

We don't put it on a pedestal, we don't keep it shined, we don't keep it from harm, and we don't realized, until we've lost it, how valuable it was.

For instance, "God's" love. Always there for the taking unconditional, true and pure, so much that "He" gave "His" life without hesitation. Yet we close our eyes and turn our backs on it, so that we can have the gifts of the world, the perishable for the nonperishable. And for some, they don't see or realize what they've lost until they meet "Him" face to face on the day of judgement. Others will pick up, wipe off the dust and put "him" back on the pedestal.

A mothers love. Again, unconditional, true and pure. But yet she's disrespected, unhonored, so that a child can have free will and do as they please. Some of them wont realize what they've done, until that parent is gone and in the grave.

And the rarest love of all, one that's truly hard to find. A women's love for a man, or a mans love for a women. Not the kind where you spend time together, hop in the sack, and drop it when things get hard or uneasy, and go to the next. But the kind, the true love where you give your whole heart, your all. Where no matter how difficult things get you know that they'll always be there. Where you work together for goals, and you couldn't imagine yourself without that person.

then the ways of the world come along, you turn your back on them, causing pain and hurt. Saying mean things to make your quilt theirs.

Love is such a precious gift and easy to take care of why do people drop it in the dirt, and instead of picking it back up and wiping it off, they keep stepping on it and pushing it deeper and deeper into the ground, like a kerosene lamp that burns continuously. If not refilled, eventually it burns out and the light is gone. Or a flower that blooms all year round, but no one waters or tends to it, it eventually withers up and dies.

So if you are blessed enough to find and have love, cherish it, guard it and treasure it. And if you've dropped it in the dirt, pick it up and wipe it off and let it shine. Don't keep pushing it further away!