"This is how we have known what true love is: He gave His life for us. We, too, ought to give our life for our brothers and sisters." Love is a word very much used and abused. The acid test of love is our readiness to die. Not many are ready to pay that price. Could this be the reason very few really love? A readiness to die for the ones we love also includes that daily dying to self - to the expectations we have of others, to our attitudes towards them, to the terms and conditions we lay down for them to measure up to. Only when we are ready to die to self can we live for others and truly claim to love them.