I can't sleep...obviously--it's 2:45(when i wrote this, not typed it. ha), and all I can think about is weird stuff when I'd rather my stomach stop hurting and I could think about the back of my swollen eyelids. Just me, God, and the moth.
I think it's weird how people try to make love the most complicated thing ever when it's actually one of the more simple things, i think. I think it's weird how people thing love can fade, or chip, or reduce in some way over time or because of something the other did. I think it's weird how people try to make different categories of love. Like "unconditional" love...if it's real love then shouldn't it automatically be unconditional without it having to be said? Without unconditional already in the definition doesn't that just make it "like" or infatuation? I don't like when people try to make 100 different categories for it. It's all the same. Of course you love your mom differently than you'll love your husband, but it's still the same. If you really LOVE someone--it never ever fails. What if God was like, "Hey, Lauren got really annoyed with me tonight and started questioning me, who is she to question me?! I think I'll love her a little less tomorrow!"...if that were the case, I'd be in a bad way.
All true love is the same. The only reason a human can even begin to define what love is, is because God first loved us. All love can only branch off of His love for us. God is love. [1 John 4:8] So, I guess that means the only way we can love someone perfectly and truly is if He is right in the middle of it. What if every fight my parents had over 22 years of marriage made them love each other less...I think they'd be divorced. I think love is weird, but there's no way one can live a Christian life without it.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. [1 Corinthians 13:13]
Someone very wise in my eyes told me that "love is kinda like a tattoo on your heart and it never completely goes away."--I thought this was a beautiful way of putting it, but they were trying to tell me that that tattoo can fade and be chipped away at over time...maybe if it's a henna tattoo, but it's not supposed to be. Of course getting hurt can become a hindrance to that love, but if it were really love to begin with it could somehow persevere through that, because again love never fails.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails... [1 Corinthians 13:7-8a
Not trying to prove my very wise friend wrong, but just want them to know that i will love them forever : )
I pray that every time I have a disagreement with a loved one that I will only want to love them more until I'm ready to explode! : )
The ugly moth died. I'm glad I'm in a better way than it is...guess it's just the two of us again.
***Ps. I hope this blog did someone some good because Lindsey sent me this verse this morning and I just knew I had to go through with posting this.
Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other [Romans 12:10] I've had someone give me the title and idea to do this post, I've had someone give me a reason and the idea of content to do it with, and then Lindsey's verse this morning confirmed that I should post it. So, God has a way of reaching me when He needs to, as usual. : )
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beautiful. end of story.
ReplyDeleteLauren, God has his hand on you. There is no doubt about it. He has truly blessed me with a friend like you. Yes, we have our differences... quite often actually, but I know in the end, we really do love each other, unconditionally. thank you for being who you and are doing as God asks. I love you :)
This is absolutely beautiful Lauren :) just like you! Thank you so much for posting it, God works through you and I have no doubt about that. I love you :)
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