its about time, i know

you may have been wondering why i haven't blogged in a while? did i fall off the face of the earth? no silly, I've just been super busy. and when blogging came to my mind i wondered what to write about, and so much stuff was happening i just couldn't narrow it down to one specific thing to write about so i just wouldn't do it.

so i guess its this time in the the blog where i start my topic...and today's topic is ...drum roll please...

LOVE!

lately i have been learning a lot about love. and just all the different aspects of it all, and how important it is to a person.

there are tons of different verses in the bible that reference love and how to love one another...examples? yes!

lets just start with one of the more well known verses on LOVE...

John 3:16 - "For God so LOVED the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

or how about...

Proverbs 17:21 - "A friends LOVES at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."

anddd....

John 15:12-13 - "My command is this, LOVE each other as I have LOVED you. Greater LOVE has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."

butttt my favorite one is...

1 Corinthians 13:4-13 - "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

God shows the ultimate love when he sent his son to die on the cross for us, what an amazing LOVE that is. he gives us all of these to show how he commands us to LOVE! Someone said tonight in bible study, "when you die, how do you want people to remember you?" and i had to honestly think about that because you know first answer out of my mouth would have been for amazing shoes, or hair, or something ridiculous like that. So i thought, and i said, LOVE. I want to be known for love. I pray that when people think of me, they see the LOVE i have for Jesus, and for them, and all I did in life. I want them to see where I learned to LOVE, and how deeply i LOVE.

Today, wherever you are, stop and think...what will people remember about me?

Really think about it, don't just blow it off. It may just change the way you live.

I'll leave you with this thought...

a friend of mine was telling me that someone told her she used the word LOVE to much...and my thought to you is, do you use it enough? Do you LOVE loudly?...think about it!

With all my LOVE,

Em