Love is an amazing and wonderful gift!  Our Creator has blessed us with the ability to love and be loved. (Stop for a minute and think about that last statement – AMAZING!)  We all have a little taste of this, some more than others!  Most of us know what it is to love and be loved and when we stop and think about it, really think about it – Love is a good thing!  We get a little bit of this, but we do not accept and utilize this great gift as we could and should.

Call it what you want – love, compassion, tenderness, sharing and caring.  Whatever you call it, it is one of the most vital qualities that we have been blessed with.  Life would be empty and meaningless without it!  While we know what it is, have experienced a bit of it and know that it is a good and special thing, we have gotten lazy and apathetic about its cultivation and care.

We know how important and special love is, but we spend little time, energy and thought in trying to develop and grow it.  We almost have the attitude of:  “I’ll love if I have time, or if I want to and if someone wants to love me back then that will be fine!”  Love does come and go freely, but it is also something that we need to nurture and take care of!

I guess I am writing this post today, because I know that love is something that I need to think more about and work harder for!  I need to get better at giving and receiving this amazing gift!  I am very thankful for the love that I share and have shared, but I am not satisfied.  I know that I can love more and I can love better!

I have had the opportunity this week to love and be loved and I like it!  As I look back on my life I have noticed that in my busyness, I have missed so many opportunities to love and be loved; and I am going to try to stop missing the opportunities and grab them in the days ahead!  Watch out – this lover is on the loose!

God’s light is our vision, His will is our path!  We do not have to discover it, nor do we need to make it up.  It is already in existence, waiting for our yielding.  To miss this vision, His will, by choosing our own way is in reality to be in bondage and not even know it.

To mentally disobey the Lord, is to physically enslave ourselves.  We take ourselves away from the plans of God.  It is not our vision that matters, it is God’s vision and our ability to surrender to it!

We cannot look at others and what they have and do and think of what we don’t have and what we can’t do, instead we must focus on God and the Heavenly vision that He offers each of us to be involved with.

God has not called us to debate, He has called us to surrender, submission and sacrifice.  As citizens of Heaven, we have no property and no personal rights.  My life is not in my possessions, but in the presence of my Savior!

It is great to be saved and our Salvation experience should be near and dear to us.  But we cannot stay in that moment and grow in the way God plans for us to!  We must seek to measure up to the calling and plan of God as it unfolds in our lives today.

The truth is:  The truth can only set us free when we acknowledge it.  We acknowledge the truth by yielding our life to what it says.  Everyday we make a choice to become more devoted to or to desert the “High Calling!”

May God find us faithful and devoted with our words, deeds and life today!

Yesterday, I helped a bunch of kids help others, it was fun!  I talked with a co-worker and discovered how a childhood accident still hurts their back to this day, I prayed for her!  I sorted through what looked like trash to find the good stuff that could bless someone, and it was worth it!  I spent some time with a senior adult lady, she just needed someone to talk to, I enjoyed it!  I held the hands of a couple facing hard times and bad news, and we got through it one more day!  I laughed with an 11-year-old and her Mom, and we chased away the fear!  I looked into the eyes of some really hurting people, tried to let them know that I really care, and it made a difference for all of us!

It was a good day yesterday, but that day is gone and now I have today.  I wonder what adventure, challenge and blessing awaits?  Let’s go see!