Love is hard

News stories tell of calls for us to love rather than hate. But I wonder how many of those calls talk about how hard genuine love is. How much courage it takes. How big a shift in consciousness it requires to move past shallow, greeting-card love and accept both the sacrifices and the rewards of genuine, expansive love. Selfishness, fear and personal comfort can seduce us away from loving, but we have the great teachers to remind us how to love. Not in words, but in actions.