in love

Love is calmly telling your child for the tenth time to brush their teeth.

Love is holding the door open for someone who’s hands are full.

Love means that when your friend has the family you always wanted, you don’t resent them for it.

Love means not going to your neighbour and saying “Look at my life and my friends and isn’t it the best. Look at what I have done with my life”.

Love means you don’t dig your heels in when you are in an argument. You understand that the person across from you is more important than the issue.

Imago Dei

Love means you do not speak ill of them to a crowd, or to one.

Love means you are out for them. You die every day so that they come first.

Love means you count to 10. And then you count to 10 again. Because for this person you love, do you spew lava?

Love can remember the hurts but that doesn’t mean you can launch those hurts at their face like some rancid food fight.

Dona nobis pacem

Love is when you fight back the lord of darkness; he will not reign in your life. 

Love is when you sing the praises of Immanuel.

Always, it shields.

Always, it believes.

Always, it holds to light.

Always, it lasts over and above all trials. It continues on and on.. and on.

Hark! Exalt! Hallelujah! 

Love never sleeps. It never stumbles. It always wins the race. Love Succeeds.

If I spout the word of the Lord but don’t follow it up with Love, I break the ears of those I seek to bring to Him. If I have been blessed with wisdom, with unending, powerful, mountain-moving faith, with words to understand His ways, and yet still.. no Love, then what is the use of me.

One day, One Day! He will bring it all! We will no longer have to strive, to yearn, to battle, to weep, to lay it all down. Because He will pick us up and we will fall on our faces in His presence. And our Hope will be revealed and we will have everlasting Peace and we will forever shout with Joy because He.. HE is Love perfected and we will be perfected because of Him.

Until then good Christian;

Hold fast to your Hope, because from hope springs His Peace and when we live in His Peace we burst forth in His Joy and when our Joy bursts forth it plays out in His Love. How can it not? 

“For this very reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted in LOVE, may have power together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” *

Amen