The act of loving will always call us out of what is immediately comfortable or known. Love and sacrifice are more closely intertwined than our western view is comfortable with. An act of true love requires us to act beyond ourselves and beyond what is easy. It requires us to see the possibilities of a new narrative, a new possibility - whether it be in ourselves or in the recipient of our love. This is why, to me, we need God in order to understand love because He gives us a model as to how to lay ourselves down.