True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes
time. Too often expediency, infatuation, stimulation, persuasion, or lust are mistaken for love. How hollow, how empty if our love is no deeper than the arousal of momentary feeling or the expression in words of what is no more lasting than the time
it takes to speak them.
*Love of God takes time. Love of family takes time. Love of country takes time. Love of neighbor takes time. Love of companion takes time. Love in courtship takes time. Love of
self takes time.
*Whether we are a young son, not wanting to hear of love, but
preferring to see it in action, a prisoner, a student, a mother, a
father, daughter, or the stranger, we need and deserve more than the declaration, “I love you.” Let us resolve to take the time to give of ourselves in putting love into appropriate action and performance. God, too, needs more than words. He is
made happy by our feeding, keeping,
and continuing.
-Marvin J. Ashton, “Love Takes Time,”
Ensign, Nov 1975, 108
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