Every now
and then, God gives me a glimpse into what real love should look like. This week, thanks to my sweetheart, I had
just such a revelation. For me, vacation
means going somewhere, anywhere, that is not home. I don’t want to feel like I’m sitting home on
vacation. However, I never realized
that, until recently, my hubby would be perfectly happy sitting at home on his
vacation. Yet, for the last few years,
we have gone somewhere for vacation. My
darling husband does this not because he loves it, but because he knows I love
it. In short, the only reason that he
goes on vacation is because it makes me happy.
He puts his wants aside for me and what I want. What a beautiful picture of the kind of love
we all should have for each other; not just as husband and wife but for
everyone. We are to “consider others
better than ourselves”; to put their needs above our own. We deny ourselves something because we know
someone else has a need. How different
relationships and our world would be if we put this into action. It would turn this world upside down or maybe
right side up.
There are tragedy and sadness in everyone's life, No one is exempt. Yet, in the midst of the hurt and pain, God is there. He takes the things that hurt us and make us sad and turns them into things are beautiful. The death of my mother was a tragedy to my dad. However, because of that tragedy, my dad began to see his need for God. In his brokenness, he found a God that could make him whole. God turned his ashes into beauty. My dad, in turn, taught me to love God. I am blessed to know God as my savior because of my dad. God also blessed me with a lovely step-mom Life is harsh at times, and many things are sad, Yet, if we let him, he will take our ashes and make them into a work of art. He delights in making the ash heaps of our life beautiful. When we are broken, God is near, and where there is sorrow, he will turn it into dancing. Thank you, God, F...
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