It’s not my religion; it’s my relationship with God. My place on this earth is not to preach, condemn, or judge, but simply,
to
love
[אהבה]
you.
This is my choice and my life. Plenty has happened in my lifetime that I pray would never have happened to you, however, to exist each day is a gift of grace. I cannot tell you why life is the way it is sometimes. All I can tell you is that grace is the only hope I've ever had to get me through the struggles of this life. Without faith, hope, love, perseverance, temptation, pain, tragedy, sorrow, struggle, and just as importantly, choice, what would you be if you had none of these to fabricate you? Find out what makes you, you.
to
love
[אהבה]
you.
This is my choice and my life. Plenty has happened in my lifetime that I pray would never have happened to you, however, to exist each day is a gift of grace. I cannot tell you why life is the way it is sometimes. All I can tell you is that grace is the only hope I've ever had to get me through the struggles of this life. Without faith, hope, love, perseverance, temptation, pain, tragedy, sorrow, struggle, and just as importantly, choice, what would you be if you had none of these to fabricate you? Find out what makes you, you.
Ask yourself . . .
What defines you?
What’s your purpose?
Do you use “human nature” as an excuse to be weak?
Do you hate with the same passion with which you love?
Rest assured . . . this is sincere . . . this is true.
Put your heart where your mouth is.
True Love:
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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.” (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
