“Love is an impossible concept.” Richey James Edwards

love

you: I love those shoes.
me: Really? The same way I love everything else?



What’s up with the word “love”?
It doesn’t have much meaning when we use it so loosely.
Maybe we don’t really get it.
Maybe we don’t understand what real love is.
What it involves to really love somebody.
What it means to give yourself to someone else.
We mistake things like friendship,
commitment,
or lust for love,
but God wired us a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or to make us miss out on the best that life has to offer.
God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way it’s meant to be felt.

Open.

Many of us have experienced situations where we've prayed and it felt like God wasn't listening. And yet other times we've prayed or known someone that prayed and the situation changed. Does God answer prayer? Sometimes, but not all the time? Or does God always answer prayer it's just that sometimes God says no? some of us are angry with God for not answering the prayers we've prayed for years. Why did he answer their prayer but not ours? What if there's more to prayer than just God listening and answering? Maybe if we understood how Jesus prayed, our concepts and expectations of prayer would change.

"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.-Walter Chrysler"

Whirlwind.

A lot of us have gone through times in our lives that are difficult. Some have been small and hard to understand and some have been big and overwhelming. During these times we want answers, don't we? We want to know why. Why do we have to suffer? Why do bad things happen to good people? We just want someone to make sense of it all. But we don't always get the answers, do we? Sometimes we are left wondering. And those can be some of the most difficult times. Maybe there are times we need to be released from having to have all the answers. And maybe it's when we're released that we are able see there may be more going on here than we realize.