Today's Thoughts
March 15,2023
I'm sitting here at home after just laying precious baby Montana down for a nap thinking of all the things God has changed inside of me which then brought change outside of me. All the things that he stripped away that were so dark, so ugly, so painful that he then replaced with pure love and the most beautiful action words of mercy and grace. Not just his for me but he instilled it my heart to give it to myself and then others too.
Maybe many will laugh when I say I believe the narrow way is LOVE. They will laugh because many think they possess LOVE. I guess maybe most of us do to some point or another. I'm speaking of pure unconditional love tho. The kind God has for us.
It's a love that embraces all things and all people as beautiful expressions of our creator. Even the broken pieces are so very beautiful. Even the dark can be seen as the useful tool it was made it be.
Jesus said there was no greater love than to lay one's life down for a friend just as he proved on Calvary. He then ask if we want to be his friend we too must lay down our dreams, our needs, our wants and instead give our life as a sacrifice to put others needs first.
When I had come to the end of myself and could find no reason to want to continue forward on my journey is when he said “ok, now, I can work with this empty shell”.
He surrounded me with strangers in need to care about instead. He said stop all this self pity and let me show you all the things you have been blessed with that you so easily take for granted. So he sent homeless, jobless, alcoholics and drug attacks, children raised in foster care, children beaten and raped by those who claimed that to love them, people cast out by society because they were nothing more than poor. Everyday I was shown how very blessed I had always been. I was so ashamed of all I had taken for granted. Loving these helped me to then love my life again, he had given me purpose, his purpose of loving unconditionallly filled with mercy and grace for every soul I meet.
I could never write enough pages to adiequately describe all he has taught me and brought me through. I can say the answer to what is this life experience for, he did it all for LOVE!