February 15, 2010
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Learned about Love
10 things i have learned about love. in honor of (past) valentine’s day:
1. What you want–you really want–you go after until you get it or you realize it wasn’t what you really wanted
2. Everyone thinks of something different when they hear the word “Love.” We are constantly growing into and from our definition of love
3. Love makes anything it touches beautiful. It should be included everywhere.
4. I am not a good student of my heart. I always let it surprise me: “You are in love with WHO???”
5. I have never regretted loving, even when it brings pain. It is ALWAYS worth it.
6. I want to be a student of love. It is something i will always be learning about–smashing my old expectations about–all my life.
7. I love drowning in God’s love. It is a beautiful death.
8. You can’t kill, force, or control love. You can submit it. give it back. And at least for me, a huge part of love is LETTING GO. of my expectations. of the person. of my personal rights and desires.
9. Love is never wasted. It transforms the average into the best.
10. Love is something that both happens to you and you choose. the mixture of which is which that is changing, fluid, and fluctuates.
11. Love is not attached to actions. I don’t love BECAUSE of what you do. If i did, then you could do something i didn’t like and i could stop loving you. But at the same time, love will lead to actions, because that is what love is. (This nice little paradox is sorta like faith and works in the book of James.)
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ok. i lied. it was 11 things. oh well. I went out with God on Valentine’s day. We had an amazing time. God likes picnics with plums, hummas, and pita. I looked for God’s favorite flower, but i couldn’t find it. then i realized why: because God’s favorite is palm trees.
and i realized something. God is not my interum date until i find “the one.” He is my date. Forever and always. It’s the guy that makes it a threesome. hmm. that’s a new way of looking at things…
