Remember: It's not what you say as much as what you do

Pondering an everlasting, encompassing Love

"Ponder the awesome mystery of a Love that encompasses you from before birth to beyond the grave."
Sarah Young, Jesus Calling, p. 352

Jeremiah 31:3 - "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love..."
Malachi 1:2 - "I have loved you," says the Lord
Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..."
John 14:1-3 - "I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that
                        where I am, there you will be also."

Do you need strength and courage?

Just a reminder

“Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.”

― Laura Wiess, Ordinary Beauty

Praying to Love More Today

"The way to love life is to imagine losing it."  Ann Voskamp said this in her book, One Thousand Gifts Devotional.  She said this as she thought of losing her Mother.  She ended her devotion with this prayer:

Father God, may I wake to losing someone today — so I can win love. Cause me to realize that someday I’ll lose what I have — so I can win real eyes. Let me experience unlimited elation today — by imagining unexpected limitation. Let me envision life without the loveliness of those I love — and I can see to love more.

May this be our prayer, to love more.  

What language do you speak?

"Thankfulness is not some sort of magic formula; it is the language of Love..."  (p. 341, Jesus Calling, Sarah Young)

What language do you speak?  I often speak the language of frustration.  I've even been known to be bilingual.  I can speak anger and condemnation with ease.  Watch your language.  It reveals where you have been living, the color of your heart, and the origin of your roots.

It's not always what you do, it can be what you don't do that matters

Someone said, "Love's greatest triumph is not always in what love does but - more often than not - in what love refrains from doing."  I don't know who said it.  But, it is a good reminder.  We are what we do, and what we chose not to do ~ even though we could...

The Opposite of Love

Billy Graham posed:

"What is the opposite of love?  It isn't hate (although it may take that form).  The opposite of love is selfishness."  (from Wisdom for Each Day)

Always Learning New Ways to Show Love

Willing to Love

"In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will.  When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling....On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our own well-being to that end, even if it means sometimes just leaving them alone.  Thus in Jesus' terms we can love our neighbors without necessarily liking them.  In fact liking them may stand in the way of loving them by making us overprotective sentimentalists instead of reasonably honest friends...This does not mean that liking may not be a part of loving, only that it doesn't have to be.  Sometimes liking follows on the heels of loving."