True Love

Quick Verse: Alma 38 v. 12 "Use boldness, but not overbearance; and also see that ye bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love; see that ye refrain from idleness."

We live in a world that thinks passion is love, an idicator of true love, and the source of it. I find it interesting that Alma counsels his son to bridle (control and harness) his passions that he may be filled with love. I think his distinction is profound. He's essentially saying that passion unrestrained (as dizzying and sensational as it may seem in the moment) actually may keep us from experiencing TRUE love.

I don't know to what degree this is true, but it is my opinion that one cannot be filled with true love, if one harbors the heated feelings of lusts, because one cannot see past the object of one's desires and break past the selfish desires of self to where true love allows us to serve, sacrifice and perceive true beauty.

--Ray