Happy Valentine's Day!
Throughout my childhood, I've been taught to feel LOVE; as throughout my infancy, I've been shown and was given PURE LOVE.
As a young woman, I remained steady and submerged in the LOVE that I was taught as a child and shown and given during infancy.
In my older years, as I became a wife and then a mother, I passed on the LOVE I'd been taught to feel and to demonstrate.
Regardless of the problems I experienced throughout my childhood, I remained feeling LOVED.......
I grew up, really up, really never understanding what anything other than LOVE truly felt like.
HATRED was something I didn't identify with, I never really truly understood. Instead, I'd pray for others, seeing hatred as a momentary setback that would somehow go away.
It was easy to get over the things that went wrong, because, despite these things (whether they'd been close to home or not) there was always LOVE that I was feeling, that was overflowing................
Within the past ten years, my loved ones have gotten much older, some have even moved on, some are gone from this earth forever.
LOVE, these days, is like a sport...........structured, and redirected. That is, it may be there, but mainly, the LOVE is geared toward a person who feels strongly about the sport.
This is a blessing, and thank goodness for LOVE regardless of its form.
But the LOVE shared among mankind comes in spurts and I guess I had to figure this out for myself because I never knew what anything other than LOVE felt like.
Now, I understand the difference between LOVE and HATRED; that is, what it looks like, how it feels to receive, even how it feels to deliver, as I now believe that to completely transform oneself and be as one with GOD, a Christian must do. I guess this is what GOD waited on for as long as he could.
LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind........... LOVE is not envy...........
The LOVE I'd known my whole life seems to have dissipated. Many claim that these are signs of the times.
It is my opinion and my experience that with HATRED in the picture, LOVE seems more remote......
This is just something I've been wanting to say.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 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.
1 Peter 5:10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
