love.

dandelions

my life depends on it

loving, because my life depends on it.

1 Peter 4:8: "Most of all, Love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything."

I want my life to depend on love. I want to love people and love God as my life depends on it. Like I depend on the air to fill my lungs and food to nourish my body... I want my heart and soul to depend on love. So without it, my heart would be empty, hard, lifeless... and my soul: dried up, deserted, weak. We are blessed with the greatest love of all, the love of a savior. I put my life on that love. This kind of love has no boundaries.

flowers

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" 1804

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

~William Wordsworth

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. - Gertrude S. Wister

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... - Susan Polis Shutz

Happiness held is the seed, Happiness shared is the flower. - John Harrigan

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tightly closed in a bud, was more painful than the risk it took to BLOOM. - Anais Nin

gravity

Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone.

You hold me without touch.
You keep me without chains.
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

You loved me 'cause I'm fragile.
When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you're everything I think I need here on the ground.
But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go.
The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down
You're on to me, on to me, and all over...
Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.

fadeless faith

"true the grass withers & the wildflowers fade, but our God's word stands firm forever."

-Isaiah 40:8

I am caught in the beauty of this world on a daily basis. God made it and said it was good. For His people to take delight in it. The little details God puts in His creations stir up so much joy in my heart that I often forget the troubles of this world. Some may consider this a blessing, and most times I do. But this verse speaks that we must not base our joy and faith on things that fade, wither... die, but rather on God's word that stands firm FOREVER. This is a hard one for me to swallow because I am terrible at reading God's word. My Bible gets opened on a regular basis, but my struggle comes with hearing and listening to God through reading. And because hearing and listening to God is something I strive for everyday in my life I have gotten stuck in this habit of trying to find Him elsewhere... like in the sunsets, stars, flowers, laughter, puppies, friendships. Its not that God isn't in those things, He is very much. But what I am realizing is that my faith needs to be found on something unshakable, true, firm and fadeless: The Word.

Lord thank you for loving me and blessing me. Thank you for being for me. I am grateful for Your Word... Let it be your voice. I am listening.

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