As promised I am going to start a series on Love. What is it? How do I find it? How do I keep it once found? Why is love so important? I plan to take you on a journey toward finding true love that will last an eternity. Today, I want to start with a video introduction. The series will be mostly written—it will be a journey through brokenness and sorrow; yet, will lead you closer to understanding love with all it’s beauty and it’s complexities. Where ever you may find yourself along this journey, my desire is to help you discover the true joy and beauty of love.
LOVE IS IMPORTANT. Why?
1. Love says I matter, my life matters.
2. Love gives purpose and meaning to life, beyond merely existing.
3. Love stretches me to be a better person—it reveals my own weaknesses and pushes me to overcome them
4. Love reveals the deepest scars so they can be healed. You can never fight cancer until you find it first. Often our own scars remain hidden deep inside our heart until love reveals them. Only then can they be healed
5. Love brings Joy to life.
6. Love is central to hope—always looking forward.
7. Love gives us a sense of belonging. WE are not alone.
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,[c]15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—(of Love) 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:14-19 (NKJV)
(NKJV)New King James Version Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
©Effie Darlene Barba, 2016
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