Principle #2: Love is Action - Not Just Words

Chosen Generation~

Realizing that love is an act leads to the fact that love is an action, and not just words. How simple life and consanguinity would be if love was just words.

But – at the same time how barren our subsistence would be.

You see, just as any child will eventually get sick of candy and long for casserole (as the Bible puts it – we will tire of milk and yearn for meat), so will you.

This is true of both our spiritual and of our physical relationships – anyone can “talk the talk,” but only the committed will truly “walk the walk.” Commitment cannot be defined as a one time decision, but as a life long pursuance.

True love takes the time to do the work necessary. True love will joyfully accept the required action, no matter how strenuous, or how tiring.

1 John 3: 18 explains how Christians are charged to love:

“My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth."

As I gaze around at the people engaged in my life, my poisoned brain thinks only of what I can get out of them, and not what I can give them. But as one prays for renewing of the mind God will open their eyes, and they will see that every single person – whether it be family, friends, or someone at Wal-mart – gives them an opportunity to serve through love.

            The work clothes of pure and selfless love may not be your favorite to wear, but the Lord promises that they will never go out of style when the season changes.

To you, dressing in love may seem tedious, maybe even disgusting – but love works in a way such that the more often you put on that outfit and purposefully endeavor to truly love, the more beautiful it will become on you. The Love of Christ is an outfit that doesn’t look better depending on your hair or on your makeup – but on your heart.

True love is not tricked by appearances.

Impossible is Nothing~

-Be a World Changer-

Credits: A Young Woman's Wak With God, Elisabeth George, http://biblegateway.com

In the Light

Chosen Generation~~~

So - I have a nice long post I'm working on (I really truly am), because I got a wonderful idea while photographing my sister's dead roses. Morbid? Not really. But you may feel so after you've read it... which would be after I write it. Anyways...

I wanted to share the following, because I think it's pretty much amazing - and if you could tell, I didn't write it.:)

Thanks Maresa for letting me use it.

In The Light

city lights ignite some fire at night, and i feel alive. the clock reads 10:44 and i realize that it's only an hour and sixteen minutes away.

that we'll have made it.and there are lots of things to say, but none of them really sum it up.
and all i can feel is grace, and love, and hope, and i swear its almost tangible.
one minute at a time, one hour at a time, one day at a time.
and we are still here and our breaths still come out clear and my heart is still beating, strong and fast.
and tonight that is enough.
it's enough to just breathe. it's enough to just live. to be. to feel overwhelmed with love and joy andhope and change and growth. and pride.

and fear. a big amount of fear.but tonight, and tomorrow, i can let that go. i can breathe.
we can breathe. breathe grace, healing, love, redemption, freedom, laughter, inspiration, hope, change, and feeling.
tonight i am reminded that we were made for more. that it is okay to mourn, but it is also okay to dance. and tomorrow it will be okay to laugh and live and recount and rejoice together.
tomorrow, like we have for the past several months, we trade pain for healing, secrets for truth, and death for life.
and there's a big part of me that believes that as we party here on earth, Jesus and all of His angels are celebrating up in heaven, too. and it is the best feeling.
so. thank you. for reminding me that i never walk alone. for being there. for rescuing me, for being the physical hands of Christ in my life.

the city lights are bright tonight, and i'm reminded that life, too, can be bright. in the little things that provide solitary moments of joy. in the smaller bits that make up the big picture. in grace, in love, in redemption. i believe it tonight.
i hope you believe it too.

Well, I have

a lot of Chem to go do, for which I'm seven minutes late.:)

~IiN~

-Be a World-Changer-