The world needs love, the world needs grace

"Somebody loving you is grace.
 Loving somebody is grace."
Frederick Buechner

Nothing can take the place of love

"Greed, gluttony, lust, envy, pride are no more than sad efforts to fill the empty place where love belongs."  Frederick Buechner

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.