As we approach this upcoming holiday celebrating what we would call ''love'', I am reminded most about true love. My older brother likes a movie called 'Princess Bride', from which there is a famous line, ''Mawage is what bwings us together today. And wuv, twu wuv, will fowow you fowever.'' Then in another part of the movie one of the main characters says, ''Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.''
Furthermore, President Spencer W. Kimball in a devotional to young adults related, ''For many years I saw a strong man carry his tiny, emaciated, arthritic wife to meetings and wherever she could go. There could be no sexual expresion... I think that is pure love. I saw a kindly woman wait on her husband for many years as he deteriorated with muscular dystrophy. She waited on him hand and foot, night and day, when all he could do was blink his eyes in thanks. I believe that was love. I knew a woman who carried her little unfortunate child until the body was too heavy to carry, and then she pushed her in a wheelchair for the following years until her death. The deprived child could never express appreciation. It seems to me that might be love. Another mother visited regularly her son who was in the penitentiary. She could receive nothing from him. She gave much, all she had... If this beautiful body... suddenly became deformed or paralyzed, would my reactions be the same? If this lovely face were scarred by flames... would I be such an ardent lover? If senility or any of its approaches suddenly fell upon my sweetheart, what would my attitude be? The answer to these questions might test one to see if he is really in love or if it is only physical attraction."
Of course, Valentine's day is a day for romance and for celebrating the love we have for our loved ones, but I believe we should remember also that it is a time to remember sacrifice because that is what love is about. And hopefully we never forget the greatest act of sacrifice and love done for us: ''For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).''
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