Love

      Love...It's an interesting word isn't it? We use it to describe things we like such as our cars, houses, or even a piece of food. We use it to describe our feelings for one another, "I love you" being the phrase of choice. But how often do we really mean what we say? Love is such a confusing word that even a person with a doctrat in English doesn't fully understand it. Why is this? Why are so many people able to give 10 million different definitions of love but still fail to grasp its true meaning? It is because they do not have a relationship with the giver and provider of true love. As overused as it seems John 3:16 sums it up pretty clear "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." Even better than that is the fact that his love is Never! Ever! going to leave us. Marriage is supposed to be for a life time but then you see all kinds of people getting divorced, A relationship with God is for eternity and divorce isn't an option.  Romans 8: 38-39 says "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Now how awesome is that?!?!?! 


      This week has been extremely stressful for me. From learning to interact with a new team of people to struggling with being away from my friends and family for an entire summer. I can honestly say that the only thing that has kept me going through all of this is the love that I find in God. I chose to be away in St. Louis this summer because God loves me and has a plan for my life and I want to follow that plan. I know there are going to be struggles this summer. I know that there are going to be times when I just want to give up and quit. But I also know that I will always have one thing to keep me going, one thing to lift me up when I'm down, one motivation for doing what I do, and that one thing is God's love. If you're reading this it is my prayer that you may bask in the love that God has for you. Live for that love! Eat, sleep, and breathe, For. That. Love. Because I can assure you that there is nothing more fulfilling in this life.