Falling Deeper for Someone: What a Process!

The butterflies, laughter, and sweet utterances are great and all, but I am realizing that falling in love is much more enjoyable and worth it when two people change to be better people for the other and for themselves. How amazing it is when people love you as you are, but also encourage you to be the best you can be and live up to your amazing potential. Romance and writing hearts and saying " I Love You," and all the little things that go with falling in love is sweet and it definitely doesn't hurt, but there is so much more to love than what the media shows us and so much more than just the physical love that many desire and is often selfish (ecstasy not purity). There is sacrifice, understanding, forgiveness, acceptance and most of all there is a commitment to be there for each other or give space when they need it; to be the other person's half , recognizing of course that God completes us. It is combining your interests with someone else's. It is learning to be patient and letting love be spoken in action than through words alone. There is so much to love, that I get the privilege to learn how to give love, and to be able to spend my entire lifetime knowing my Heavenly father's love for me, but also the love from my future husband and one day, from my children. 

It is a process to love someone. I used to think it was just something that happens over time that is magical though painful at times. I used to see love as a concept that couldn't be explained as if it was an extreme emotion that had many different facial expressions. As I mature and truly learn who I am, I see that love is everything that 1 Corinthians 13 says it is. From the Message, I was reading it and I couldn't help but want to share it with all who read this:

The Way of Love

 ¹ If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. ²If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. ^3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love. 

   Love never gives up. 
   Love cares more for others than for self. 
   Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. 
   Love doesn't strut, 
   Doesn't have a swelled head, 
   Doesn't force itself on others, 
   Isn't always "me first," 
   Doesn't fly off the handle, 
   Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, 
   Doesn't revel when others grovel, 
   Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, 
   Puts up with anything, 
   Trusts God always, 
   Always looks for the best, 
   Never looks back, 
   But keeps going to the end. 

WOW! I am glad I have a lifetime to experience this love and learn how to love like this myself. What and incredible God we have who gives us this love already unconditionally. 

I am going to strive to love like this. I know I won't be able to even grasp half of this scripture until I am much wiser and older but I will STRIVE to live out this love in my family, my relationship, and in relationships I have now and the ones I will have in the future. 

I encourage all of you to love like this and ask God to help you love like he does. 

This love is difficult to give but not impossible. It is a process but one that God will take each one of us through.

  

Serenity

Sky after sunset at Municipal Beach

There is nothing like the calm after the storm, or the waves after the tide has been washed back. There is a stillness after a sunset that makes you reflect on all the memories of the day preparing for the night to fall and cover you with a glimmer of light from only the stars above. I love the ripples that reflect the shades of light that mirror the fallen rays of sun. The seagulls  squawk, the birds sing their final song for the day, the mosquitoes come out to play and there is nothing like the watercolour painting spread within the skyline. I cannot imagine waking up to the morning’s version of this beautiful setting everyday. It would be a dream of mine.  

Serenity, something that calls upon each of us in its smallest voice to bring us back to our equilibrium where everything is right and as it should be. The crave of activity, connection and a chance to live out life’s greatest moments is paused. The silence of the noise in life is minimal and the still small voice of our lover calls to us. His breath of song is sung by the songbird in its quiet melody, his voice as the swish of the waves soft but heard nonetheless. 

It beckons our soul to be at peace, to rest in the serenity of his presence that surrounds and engulfs us. 

Do we take the time to let our souls be engulfed in the love and depth of his peace and let him romance us? 

Serenity is short lived, taken for granted as if only taking it in for a moment before life picks up again in its hectic state.  I for one have never appreciated the serenity in all of its glory. If only for a moment I could I let my mind be an abyss of nothing and focus on the thoughts the heart and spirit that I often shut out due to the other voices drawing my attention away. 

Often brief and fleeting it is, so it must be cherished and appreciated as a time for thought, reflection, and gratitude. It allows us to be optimistic and live the rest of the day out in purpose and with an attitude of resting in Jesus. How beautiful it is to surrender in the God given serenity and allow our hearts to be filled with the peace and joy than comes from him. How amazing is our God!