What if love wasn’t just a feeling, but a way of being? What if it had a shape, a rhythm, a pulse that echoed through every moment of your life?
The Church gives us four marks to recognize real love—the kind that mirrors God’s own heart: free, total, faithful, and fruitful. These aren’t just ideals. They’re how God loves you, right now.
God’s love is free. He doesn’t barter for your affection or wait for you to be “good enough.” His love is unearned, unforced, and always offered. It’s the kind of love that whispers, You are wanted. Just as you are. His love is also total. On the Cross, Jesus gave everything—His body, His blood, His breath. No half-measures. No guarded heart. Just a complete surrender that says, I would rather die than be without you. And He did.
Even when you run, He stays. Even when you doubt, He believes in you. God’s love is faithful—steady, unwavering, the kind that says, I’m not going anywhere. And it’s fruitful. His love doesn’t just comfort—it creates. It brings life to barren places, hope to broken hearts, and healing to wounds you thought would never close. His love multiplies. It bears fruit in you and through you.
Jesus said in John 15:12–13, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” In these words, we glimpse the very heart of God—a love that is free, total, faithful, and fruitful. Not just spoken, but embodied. Not just offered, but poured out. And it invites us to receive it, reflect it, and let it reshape our hearts until they beat in rhythm with His.
Smitten With Goodness 