July 22, 2009

• love is…

  a friend asked me what love means to me…
  that is a loaded question…

  Love is patient, kind, not envious, not boastful, always trusts, always hopes…so the Bible says…and i fall very short.

  Love is both something that happens to you and something that you choose (that is a quote i heard somewhere)

  Love–to me–is a firm knowing, something i can’t get around, something i just know is there, even though i cannot explain it. (but often…like now…I attempt to diagnose.)

  Love is fluid, and moving and changing–
  some days it is a whistle or a song, something light and fluffy that makes me laugh.
  other days it is a challenge, an adventure, something that calls me out of myself.
  other days it is steady like a heartbeat–needing nothing and asking nothing, but always there.
  some days it is pain, when i hurt and am asked to forgive or to sacrifice. 

  Love doesn’t seem to go away, even when you want it too. You can’t kill love, but you can surrender it.
  Love wants the best for the other person, even if that means not being with them.
  Love waits. for the right time, and the right words. Love waits because it desires nothing and no one else. it waits because it can see no other option–for truly, love has blinded them to all others.

  Love is easiest to cultivate when it is first loved. But is tested and true when it loves without return.
  Love gives without being fed, for love itself is filling.
  Love sees reality, stares it in the face, and says “Not only do i know your problems, and love you in spite of them–i love you because of them.”

  Love covers a multitude of sins, love bears all things, and believes all things (more Bible quotes there).

  Sometimes love rushes you in the face and fills you completely. other times, it is something you have to conjure from the depths of the pit.
  Every moment is a chance to love someone somewhere somehow.

  i think the greatest lesson–and most important one–and if i could only teach one thing to someone, it would be this: “Jesus love you.” and if you can really get that–really feel that–really live that…then the rest of life falls into place. and i think the greatest application–the most important action–if you could only do one thing in life it should be this: “And i love Jesus” and if you can really do that–have that relationship–live life in loving Him…then the rest of life falls into place.

  And this is my goal. and this is my purpose. but i forget so quickly.

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