What's Up With Love?

Do you ever question the hype about LOVE? Why does everyone make this "love thing" such an important part of life? Where does the whole love topic come from and why has it swept over everyone of us? People will often times spend their whole life trying to find someone to love and just as much trying spent trying to be loved. It's like the song, "Whats Love Got To Do With It?" Why do we all crave to be loved? Why has it been installed in us to want to feel the excitement, embrace, passion, care, hopefulness and sincerity that love has to offer? 

There are plenty of accrunams you can create for the word love: 

L - Learning
O - Observing
V - Validating
E - Experiencing

L - Listening
O - Openness
V - Vision
E - Empathy 

Although we can create catchy phrases for the meaning of love and what it was designed for, nothing says it better then the Bible. Cheesy? Hardly! The Bible gives such an amazing understand of why we all long for love! There are several verses that describe how God loves as well as people demonstrating love in the many different stories you read in Scripture. I thought that 1 John 4:7-21 helps explain who installed the desire in us to love and what authentic love looks like.

God’s Love and Ours

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.


¹³ This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. ¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. ¹⁷ This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.¹⁸ There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
  
¹⁹ We love because he first loved us. ²⁰ Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. ²¹ And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. 

Reading these scriptures is such an amazing reminded of how powerful and loving our God is. I need to remember to thank Him daily for His sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ. I'm blessed and overwhelmed with how Great and Passion my God loves me. & YOU!

I give everything to You Lord

Princess For a day?

"Sheena Starks?" "Hi I'll be assisting you today...."
As i walked down the hall lined with numbers next to the door the lady in an all white uniform said to me, "I'll make your stay as enjoyable as possible....."

Today, for a graduation gift, i got to go to the Princess Hotel and get a massage, facial, and manicure with two of my girl friends. It was a graduation gift from my friends mom, and i actually, for the first time started realizing something...

Princesses shouldn't just be in fairy tails, and i know that may sound really cheesy, but the service my friends and i received was some what of how woman should be treated by their Husbands. It was honestly amazing. So amazing that when i first laid down to get my massage, i couldn't relax, not that i was uncomfortable, but i almost felt guilty for letting someone rube my back. Sounds a bit ridiculous?? It's true, i don't know what it would feel like if a guy took this much effort, time, patients, care, love, grace, and compassion to help me grow in the Lord and care for me emotionally. As i laid there still, she continued to finish up and then set my rob next to me, left the room, and then directed me to the womans lobby. There i met back with a my friends and then we tried everything we could!! The steam room, a room that smelled really good, the indoor hot tub, the outdoor pool, lunch, facials, manicures, and relaxation. I tell you, i have never been so pampered by people in my life. I want that from a "boyfriend"- (Future Husband) i want him to care for me like that. Not actually giving me facials, manicures, and massages, but care in a way that says you are the most important person and i am hear to cater to you and your needs and i want to please you and do what i can to make you feel more comfortable. I don't mean that to sounds selfish, because i will be more then willing to care for my husband in that way, but i don't want to settle for someone who is mediocre, because i know for a fact God wouldn't want me too. Plus, a big reason why this is getting all stirred up in my life is because of a book I'm reading called, Captivating. (Basically a book of understanding the heart and mind of a woman) That is one of the main reasons why i thought so much about everything today.
Then my sweet brother text the cutest thing when was sitting down for lunch, he said, "Do you feel like a princess, princess?" And in that one moment, i really did feel like a princess!

Graduation For Big Brother

This is a tribute to the hard work my brother has put into working his way through college!!
He has struggled a lot growing up, trying to work his way through his earlier years with my mom and now working all the way through to graduate with his bachelors! I'm so happy for you Ror! It was nice to see you made with a smiling face, i love you!

-Little sister to big brother!