Love Is My "Thing"

Love is my thing. I love talking about it. I love learning something new about it everyday. I absolutely love, LOVE. It amazes me how someone can give of themselves, their time, their commitment -the sacrifice as a whole is simply astonishing. Some of you may think I'm weird or crazy but there is no way we can survive without love. Love is a requirement! Just think about it....without love life depletes you. A person who doesn't feel loved feels stressed, your heart feels heavy. Sometimes you get depressed, sometimes you get anxious, sometimes you even want to give up on love and on life all together. Love is essential for growth. The prerequisite to loving someone else is first loving God, then loving yourself. How can you say you love Someone else without first knowing how to love yourself? When you don't know how to love you it allows room for those you seek love from to mistreat you and take you for granted -I'm not saying that they will; but it's a possibility when there are no rules to how you should be loved. Not only is love magical when it's given, but something amazing happens to you when love is received. Your attitude changes, your heart changes. Your mood is uplifted and you want to get out and do things. Life is enjoyed when there's love. How do I know? Hmm...I've been on both the giving and receiving end. I've been in the position where love was one sided and lonely. I've also had the luxury of being in a position where love is reciprocated. Maybe it's just me, but without love I felt alone. I was in the worst of moods and I just didn't want to be bothered by people; especially people I attempted to love and shot me out. I developed a sense of hatred for those people and for a very long time I wouldn't allow myself to forgive them. Broken promises, missed birthdays and holidays, being absent for some of my life's most important events... Love requires for you to show up! You can't tell someone you love them and never show them you love them. Love can't be bought! Once the money stops coming so do those feelings you get when you're receiving money. When you understand those things you love about yourself and realize those things that make you who you are is exactly why you love yourself, you'll be in a far better place when it comes to receiving love. No one should be allowed to love you the wrong way! Love isn't violent! Love doesn't cheat! Love doesn't hurt! Love is powerful -it has the power to heal the broken heart, uplift the shattered spirit, and renew the vengeful heart. Love is easy! Love is kind! Love is respectful! Love is trustworthy! Love is peaceful! I fell in love with God and found out who I really was. I made a vow to fall in love with myself before I ever tried to give love to anyone else again. I love that I love people! I love that God has removed my hurt and healed my heart. He renewed my mindset and now I know how to love everyone -including those who are unloveable -including those who've hurt me. Love is being able to let go of someone whose mistreated you, not because you don't love them; but because you love yourself a little bit more and you know that it is absolutely okay to love people from a distance. For a few months I beat myself up because I thought I was weak because I fall in love with the worse parts of people. I understand now that loving all types of people and all parts of people is apart of my purpose. See when everyone else has given up on them and has let them go because they are unloveable and may not even be the nicest people towards me or anybody else, I'm still there willing and able to show them that they have not been forgotten. Letting them know they are still loved not only by me...God loves them as well. Some people were called to lead, some people were called to serve. We all were called to love. As a Christian your love shouldn't be snobbish, it should be open and warm -always. We are to live a life that's pleasing in the sight of God. We are to love like he loved. Why do we continually and repetitiously make it complicated. It's okay if people don't love you back, not everyone is going to like you nor will they understand the genuine devotion that flows from your heart -that is okay! Love them anyway. Sometimes the most unloveable person in the room is the most broken person in the room waiting for someone to shine their light on them and be a witness of Gods love, His Grace, and Mercy. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven. (‭Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭14-16‬ AMP) You are the light of the world that shines for all the world to see! Don't let a broken heart dim your light...let your love overflow! Love, ChelCy

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