Yes folks, I'm back on the bandwagon...or more specifically, the blogwagon.
And this week's topic is...that right! WUV. So sit back with your popcorn and soda, and enjoy.
There are a few select things in my life that I will always LOVE. I love Millstone Hazelnut Cream coffee with milk in the mornings. I autumn walks outdoors. I love the fact that, even at the age of 23, my Dad is still not hesitant to bear hug me and tell me I'm beautiful...by the way Dad, if you're reading this, I truly LOVE your corny jokes and the fact that I can always count on you to ride up on your horse whenever we have company.
There are simply things in my life that I don't have to work at to love.
But if I'm learning anyting (and believe me, there are days when this is certainly in question), it is that LOVE is two things: CHOICE and OBEDIENCE. Sorry Meg Ryan, my new insight is killer for your romantic comedy career. I mean, is it any wonder that in Galations 5:22, love is mentioned first?
Well, I certainly don't want to lecture (or heaven forbid--bore you), but it's just something my over-processed mind has been chewing on.
On another note, I had the opportunity to visit with patients last week at a local hospital. One of the patients I talked with was a young mother of a new baby girl. As she sat and told me about her life circumstances, which included an abusive husband and financial difficulties--I was moved. I was moved at the fact that our lives were so completely different that only the most DIVINE POWER could have appointed us to be in the same room on the same day. Yet ironically, there have been few people in my life that I've felt a connection with like I felt with this girl. I GOT her and she GOT me. It was (whew!)oh-so-goood.
As I was preparing to leave, she grabbed my hand and asked me to name her baby girl.
Mariam.
Now I WUV THAT.
