It will cost you.

We went to see "Frozen" with our Crew Friday night. We thoroughly enjoyed our time together, and the movie. Shorty and I talked when we got home about the great depiction of love in the movie. One of the main characters is within reach of what she thinks true love is (namely, romance and mushy feelings), but she chooses instead to put the needs of another above her own. And I was reminded of this very same depiction in "Tangled". Rapunzel chooses to give up her freedom (the thing she's been chasing the entire movie) to save Flynn. But he would rather die than see Rapunzel a prisoner. It's a beautiful thing!

Love IS a beautiful thing. But it will cost you. It may not cost your life, but it will cost you. When your friend says something that really hurts your heart, forgiveness will cost you. When your spouse comes in from a hard day, and you've had a hard day too, love will cost you. When you decide to make more little people, getting up to feed them in the middle of the night, or comforting them after a nightmare, or tending one of their many little (and big) injuries will cost you. However, real love sees the cost and determines that it is worth it!

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:9-11
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:5-8 

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Hebrews 2:14-15