What Love Actually Looks Like

It was a chilly Thursday morning when I watched a young woman at a soup kitchen kneel down to tie the shoes of a man who hadn’t bathed in days.

She wasn’t rushing. She wasn’t afraid. She looked him in the eyes and smiled.

That moment struck me—not because of pity, but because of presence.

Love is not just about feeling something. It’s about giving something. Your time. Your attention. Your presence. Your strength. Your willingness to care more about someone else’s good than your own comfort.

That’s what I saw that day: not charity, not condescension—love.

We talk about love like it’s a feeling.

But the kind of love that transforms people… that heals people… that kind of love serves.

Not out of pity.

Not because someone has less.

Not because they agree with you.

But simply because they matter.

Jesus gave us this kind of love. He didn’t just feel love for the world. He gave Himself up for it. Entirely. Voluntarily.

This is what “God is love” means:

Not a passive affection. A passionate action.

That’s why true love often looks like sacrifice.

And it’s why people like Charlie Kirk visiting hostile campuses can be an act of love too. Not because he agrees with the crowd, but because he shows up. He listens. He invests himself. He doesn’t retreat to echo chambers—he enters uncomfortable places for the good of others.

That’s service.

That’s love.

Imagine a modern Good Samaritan story:

A conservative kid beaten by the world, helped up by a nose-ring wearing trans student with purple hair.

Or a left-leaning hardcore politician spiralling in despair in her office, picked up & encouraged by a colleague from the right.

That’s not political fiction.

That’s what love actually looks like.

So what does love look like?

It looks like showing up.

It looks like washing feet.

It looks like speaking truth in love.

It looks like listening when it’s easier to leave.

It looks like wanting someone else to thrive—even if it costs you.

If God is love, then love is the seed.

And the fruit? More love—expressed in joy, peace, kindness, patience, self-control.

Wherever you are today, let this be your prayer:“Lord, let my love look like Yours—uncomfortable, inconvenient, limitless. Costly”

RIP Charlie Kirk. The world is a better place because you showed up.

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Love isn’t about how we feel when God shows up; it’s about how God feels when we show up—willing to serve.