It's my favorite thing on the planet and probably in all of life wherever it goes.
I remember receiving amazing encouragement from Mark Crawford saying that my highest calling is just to love people. That was during my first year of Potter's House and I have always brushed aside that word. But. But, it is the one word that rings within me the loudest.
As I write this, I think of all the days, hours, and heart-racing minutes of my life spent trying to avoid people, trying to be invisible and yet screaming to be seen. Haha. God is so good. I just want to dump Him in a bucket and splash him in peoples' faces like cold water... Wake-y wake-y!
I think of my heart and the 20 bazillion foot wall that I built to keep out every person I've ever come into contact with. Haha. Crazy God knew better.
Every time I write of my heart in the aspect of people, there's always something new that pops up. And tonight, God told me something loud and clear in the most unexpected moment of my life. It's the point in life when I've just been asked to be in a relationship by an incredible man I am beginning to adore. It's the time in life when I find myself longing to be surrounded by people, to see the goodness in them and to tug on it, pulling it out where others can see and marvel. It's the time in my life when I am flying at my highest and am still ascending, seeing more and more. It's the time in life when I am loving my listening gift and learning how to use it even more. Haha... All I can do is laugh because love and joy and peace are flowing out of me like a river. I am filled with courage, confidence, light, and life...and most of all- love. Love, love, love.
All this is going on and in this unexpected moment tonight, being surrounded by friends and finding myself thinking about different situations I've found myself in where I'm finding the gold nuggets in people and showing them to others, God clearly says to me, "You are a lover."
That's it. And in that moment, my mind flips back to what Mark said to me that day and all I can do is smile and think in awe. I never thought I would reach this point and here I am, more awesome than I thought I was. Haha...I know the value of myself, now. I know the love I hold from the God of the flippin universe.
And love looks different all the time to me, but right now, it's found in just listening and seeing the good in people. I was made to love and be loved by Him and in all that, let love flow from me to others.
Love, love, love. I love to love and be loved. I want to love with a crazy, passionate love every day, all the time, like never before and differently in all situations. If there are never-ending facets of God's love that he shows us, then I will never run out of new ways to love people. That's what I want.
Love.
I will love.
I live to love.
I love to love.
It's goodness in a bucket that needs to be thrown in peoples' faces... Grin.
Go throw some love in someone's face. ;o)
