nap time.

i am exhausted from life and living. i am half-filled with energy and half-drained to the core.
there's my personal update for the day. :)

i read 1 Corinthians 13 today, the good old 'love chapter'. what a reminder of the power of love! God does what He does ultimately out of his vast and endless love for you and i. and we have the opportunity to love Him back and love the people around us in creative ways and in the truth of Christ. what an obligation!
someone said:
"there are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love."
that's because love is hard hard work. As Joyce Cary said, "Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too."
Love is an imaginative and intentional work that takes commitment and unselfishness. too bad we are not naturally endowed with a high level of either one! but our God is all about the process of making us more like His son Christ in everything. and so He sets us on a path of love and living to make us more like Him.
This love is not a flashy, attention-grabbing love. This is the love of Christ that seeks to better others without making it's presence flamboyant. our love has the ability to make Christ's presence flamboyant while we serve quietly. "But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there."
And so, my friends, it is time to love. Pursue love, the real and true love of Christ. live unselfishly, live intentionally, live seeking the Kingdom first and foremost. All other things will be added to you.

“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”