"To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul.
Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive."
And here's the letter that has affected all of my beautiful girls and myself. Honestly, ever since I read it, I began to live my life for it. Crazy! It's not even from the Bible, but Britt, Shandy, and I are slowly translating it line by line for text found in the Bible. I actually found some really good verses that parallel a couple points in the letter today. They're found in 1 Peter which I am reading for the first time and have to say that it is quite a cool book so far.
Oh yeah, and for my favorite letter in all-time which I am so grateful for reading: "The Perfect Love."
Everyone longs to give themselves
completely to someone. To have a
deep relationship with another, to be
loved thoroughly and exclusively. But
God, to the Christian, says no, not until
you are satisfied and fulfilled and content
with living, loved by me alone with giving
yourself totally and unreservedly to me,
to have an intensely personal and unique
relationship with me alone. I love you my child, and until you discover that only in
me is your satisfaction to be found, you will not be capable of the perfect human
relationship that I have planned for you. You will never be united with another until
you are united with me- exclusive of anyone or anything else, exclusive of any other
desires or longings. I want you to stop planning, stop wishing, and allow me to give
you the most thrilling plan existing – one that you cannot imagine. I want you to have
the best. Please allow me to bring it to you; you just keep watching me, expecting the
greatest things. Keep that satisfaction knowing that I am. Keep learning and listening
to the things I tell you, and you must wait. Don’t be anxious, and don’t worry. Don’t
look around at the things others have gotten or that I have given them. Don’t look at
all the things you want. Just keep looking
off and away up at me, or you will
miss what I have to show you. And
when you’re ready I’ll surprise you
with a love far more wonderful than
any you could ever dream. You see,
until you are ready and until the one
I have for you is ready, you have to
wait. I am working this very minute
to have both of you ready at the same
time. And until you are both satisfied
exclusively with the life I’ve prepared
for you through me, you won’t be able
to experience the love that exemplifies
your relationship with me, and this perfect
love. And dear one, I want you to have
this most wonderful love. I want you to
see in the flesh a picture of your relationship
with me, and to enjoy materially and
concretely the everlasting union of beauty
and perfection and love that I offer you
with myself. I love you utterly; I am God
Almighty; Believe and be satisfied.
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