That's what Love does...

It was a simple, cool, rainy Sunday afternoon after a long, challenging week for our family.  For the first time in a very long time, our Micah could not make it home for the weekend.  Tim had worked six straight nights in a row.  Rachel was tired from long hours at work.  I was still trying to regain strength from recent illness.  We could have easily crawled into our beds, put the covers over our heads...and slept the day away.

But that's not what love does.  Nothing sounded greater to us than to head to Lexington, meet Micah for supper and be together as a family...even if just for a little while.  We jumped into the van, took a surprise care package for Micah...and traveled to see our precious loved one.  We weren't doing anything extraordinary.  We just wanted to be together.  We hugged.  We laughed.  We talked.  We listened.  We shared.  We cared.  Because that's what love does. 

Of course, that put my analytical mind in motion.  I can't imagine what the conversation was like in Heaven long ago when it was understood that Someone would leave a beautiful, perfect, loving place...that would change everything for a fallen world.  I can't imagine how He felt knowing that He would spend over three decades in a place which would eventually lead Him to a cruel and horrible death.  But He came here anyway...and He worked, healed, loved, died and rose again...because that's what Love does.

Sometimes I wonder if the word "love" is spoken much too freely.  We hear about being loved by Him....loving one another in Him...and loving others for Him.  It is my prayer that we take that very seriously. If we love...truly love...our actions confirm it.  If we love...genuinely love...we consistently live it.  We make time for those we love.  We help those we love.  We listen to those we love.  We forgive those we love.  We respect those we love.  We sacrifice for those we love.  We live...that love.  Because that is what love does. ♥~thl

"A new command I give you;  Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another." John 13: 34 > 35