The L word

  

     I have realized lately that love is contagious and it is definitely in the air. The last two months, love to me was the six foot blonde with thin muscular legs, flat stomach, perfect boobs, and every nail polish color in the world. I cringed at the site of couples holding hands. I saw this nasty white-trash couple sticking their tongues down each others throat in the cleaning section of HEB and contemplated throwing laundry detergent & bleach at them. I grew warts, turned into a witch, & hopped on my broomstick anytime someone mentioned their significant other. I wanted to cast a hate spell on anyone that got to shower their lover in beautiful romantic love all day, every day. I contemplated hiding in my bed under the covers until this storm of love passed through town. Being stuck in the middle of a thunderstorm of love when your boyfriend is at basic training for the coast guard, on the other side of the country, without a cell phone, for two whole months is like breaking each joint in your fingers one at a time, very very very slowly.

        Luckily, God hit me on the head with a ginormous jealousy stick, knocking the jealousy monster right out of me and sending me a very important message. He has equipped me with all the supplies & material to now pass on this message to all of you about love, positivity/hope, & jealousy. 

       Love is so much more than just a word or a feeling.  Love is a comfort blanket that God uses when he chooses to not calm the storm, but to let the storm rage while he calms the child. God wants us to love each other. Hell he wants us to shower each other in love, so that for better or worse, we have love as a support system, our comfort blankets. Most importantly, there is so much love to be given and received in this world that there is no room for childish silly jealousy. And that there is no place for negativity when it comes to love.  

1 John 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

      Love is so many different things to so many different people. Love to me is when my insides start boiling over with excitement, twirling around in circles like a 5 year old, jumping up and down, prancing, giggling, uncontrollable grinning, tears of joy, & bear hugs. Feeling like you have so much love in your heart that you just want to shower someone with it constantly. You can ask Breton about my love because he has first hand experience with my bounty bouncing squealing never ending love for anything cute & adorable. Just ask me about a kitty cat! One time we played charades with a group of friends and he drew my name out of the hat. And to imitate me, he jumped up and down and skipped...everyone knew who it was instantly and I, of course, was mortified because I am completely oblivious to the fact that I apparently do this all the time. My point is that one kind of love is the love that one feels for their soul mate. Yes, I am a firm believer in fairy tales and happily ever afters. Einstein did say "If you want your children to be intelligent read them fairy tales." But I am also a believer in that God gave us all soul mates. 

   

I know this couple who are 93 years old and have been married 69 years. 

Isn't that amazing? You just don't see people in love like that anymore. 

I want that!!!!!

   

 
    There is also another type of love... love for one another. John 15:9-17 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

       Everyone has friendships that are filled with love. My girlfriends are the shoulders I cry on, shared uncontrollable laughter, the ones that keep me standing when I seem to be falling, shared secrets, help me plot revenge, the ones who will cry with me during sad movies, the hands that hold mine, never ending advice & opinions, and the best part is that the accept my weirdness.

       

 Most importantly, we must not forget to always love one another... even those that are not your "friends" because we are brothers and sisters.

Galatians 5:13  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

 So I want every one to go out there and tell someone that you love them. Yell from the roof tops how much you love them. Smile & wave at people because even that small act of kindness can brighten someone's day.


Song of Solomon 8:6-7  Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

 

I love you a bushel & a peck

& a hug around 

the neck