What the World needs Most

       Is Love Sweet Love

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You may be a skeptic. 

I wouldn't blame you. 

Let me just share with you if I may 😊

Someone asked me the other day,

"Why do we love, love - even when love seems to hate us?"

I thought about it for a moment and then this came to me.

We love, love - even when love seems to hate us ~ because 

We don't really understand what love is. 

If we did then we would realize that contrary to popular opinion, 

love does not hate us. 

No. Rather it is our own selfish nature that is guilty of hating. Harsh as that sounds.

(Websters dictionary defines "hate" as an extreme dislike or aversion for something.)

In this case it is we, ourselves, after we have been hurt, let down, disappointed, devastated and  betrayed  who have an extreme aversion towards love.

I could write on this subject for a long time.

Bottom line here is that we get hurt.

When we get hurt the natural instinctive process is to put up walls.

Walls around our heart and life. Some more than others.

We all handle hurt differently and in varying degrees.

 Once the walls go up that's when the vicious cycle of unsuccessful interpersonal relationships begins.

Be they, our family, friends, romantic partners or even work related relationships.

When we place those walls up, it affects every one of those relational areas of our lives.

How we respond in trust and our ability to commit and be accountable.

The fundamental character traits of any substantial, 
worth while relationship based on love.

Although we as humans have grown accustom to, even dependent in some cases, on love being a two way road.

The truth of the matter is - love in perfection is a one way road.

 Our most glorious and ever loving creator, Lord, Holy Father and God of all,

 made that perfectly clear in His exemplary model of love which He gave us through the gift of His only begotten Son 

Jesus our Messiah.

Not to say that we should not have anyone love us back. 

That is not what I am saying at all. 

In fact the Word of God tells us,  He (God) saw Adam was alone, and saw it was not good so He gave him a partner.

What I am saying is that if we were to gain a true, more perfect understanding of the definition of the "one way love" that is spoken of in the letter Paul wrote to the Corinthians. Exercised it, expecting nothing in return with everyone in our family, our partners, our neighbors, co-workers, etc.

I truly believe we would not be disappointed.

Even more, we would be blessed beyond that which we could even imagine.

You see, God created us to love.  

That is why we love - love.

So naturally, we all desire love. 

Love doesn't hate us.

In fact love - loves us, and loves us all equally. 

 That is why we can't live without love.

If we take a moment to really look and meditate on what true love is 

(a perfect definition is found in the word of God 1 Cor ch 13 below ) 

When the epiphany - the revelation *hits* - it will rock your world.

Love

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part,  but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.  For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Letting go - again

Okay - I may be kinda wordy tonight but in my defense -  it is quite justified.

You see sometimes you need to be. Plain and simple.

Today is one of those days.

I have been giving allot of thought these days to a precious, dear soul in my life. Someone I love more than I could possibly put into words. A relationship that is, at present, someone strained, to put it mildly. I have shed enough tears over this relationship to flood a small village. I have said more prayers than I ever knew I had in me. I have lost more sleep and worried enough concerning this one relationship that I even caused myself to doubt my own faith - (I have resolved this. No more doubt!) 

 NOW - it is time for PEACE.

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NOW - it is time for LOVE.

True love - selfless love - 1 Corinthians 13 kinda love -  Letting go of what "I" would like in "my" life with this relationship and let God take hold of this precious child and bless them in their life - unfettered - with no strings attached - unconditionally - yes- this kinda love .

Letting go - because I love you.

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Love

1 Corinthians 13

I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels;

but if I lack love, I have become merely

blaring brass or a cymbal clanging.

I may have the gift of prophecy,

I may fathom all mysteries, know all things,

have all faith — enough to move mountains;

but if I lack love, I am nothing.

I may give away everything that I own,

I may even hand over my body to be burned;

but if I lack love, I gain nothing.

 

Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful,

 

not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered,

and it keeps no record of wrongs.

 

Love does not gloat over other people’s sins

but takes its delight in the truth.

 

Love always bears up, always trusts,

always hopes, always endures.

Love never ends; but prophecies will pass,

tongues will cease, knowledge will pass.

 

For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial;

 

but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child,

thought like a child, argued like a child;

now that I have become a man,

I have finished with childish ways.

For now we see obscurely in a mirror,

but then it will be face to face.

Now I know partly; then I will know fully,

just as God has fully known me.

But for now, three things last —

trust, hope, love;

and the greatest of these is love.

Everything Has it's Season - Everything

Ecclesiastes 3

For everything there is a season,

a right time for every intention under heaven —

 

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

 

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

 

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

 

a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

 

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to discard,

 

a time to tear and a time to sew,

a time to keep silent and a time to speak,

 

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

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Right now is my time to let go - again