AGAPE

Love /freely given as a gift!

Yet most of us have a difficult time
receiving it as such.

I'm one of those such individuals.
My limited understanding of the four letter word, left me at a disadvantage, truly handicapped so to speak.

Not having a "healthy" example of what love looked like as a child, I was on a collision course to hell. With worldly views and ideas of how love was suppose to appear, I was lost.

I heard about Christ's love, and witnessed it working through others. Always the skeptic, I couldn't conceive a love so authentic could extend itself to me. Yet Christ is God's perfect example of that authenticity.

Fragmented,  I couldn't fathom a love so pure. My experience with love has always had some type of conditions associated with it. You know, the type that loves back only if your giving? 

I watched other's as they flowed in the love of the Lord. Bobbing and weaving through adversities with a smile. I thought to myself, "this is surely as fake, as fake can be!"

To my utter surprise, It wasn't! It was pure, living, breathing and loving all up in and through me! God was showing me what true love was. 

As the door closes on 2014, I am so humbly reminded of Christ's unwavering Love for me. In the midst of my darkest moments, He's been there. In His promise to never leave me, nor forsake me; He has proven Himself to me beyond measure. 

I look forward to what 2015 has to offer. My prayer is for more peace, understanding, tolerance, patience, and overwhelming love for and towards others!