Hope

hope: /hoʊp/ [hohp] – noun: to believe, desire, or trust

Monday, October 22, 2007

Love

I've finally learned what Love is.
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For years the concept of 'love' made little sense to me. It was warped in my mind due to, I believe, a few unfortunate events. I used to constantly ask myself, is this love? Why do these people say they love each other, why do they say they love me, and if this is love and they do love me, then why does everyone make it out to be something so wonderful?
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I didn't understand because what I thought and felt as love, was painful.
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Love is constantly thinking good thoughts about someone.
Love is wanting to do things for someone, even if they don't ask, or don't need it.
Love is understanding and patient.
Love is getting excited at the thought of seeing someone, even though you just saw them 5 minutes ago.
Love is giddy.
Love is warm and comforting.
Love is family, whether you share the same blood or not.
Love is being heartbroken when they feel sad.
Love is being ecstatic when they are happy.
Love is wanting to teach and to learn with them.
Love is endless amazement and being in awe of them.
Love is being proud of them.
Love is eternal.
Love is traveling in the rain or snow, just to see them.
Love is dropping everything and running.
Love is God in the heart.
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If there's only one thing I've learned so far in my journey through this year, it's that love is true and the deeper in love I fall with God, the deeper in love I can fall with the people around me. And I have definitely fallen in love with my new friends. Thanks to God I'm so in love! And I don't want to ever fall out of love with any of them.
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“Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever:
faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4

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His Plan For Me

  • Get In To the Word and Deep In Prayer
  • Prayer Journal - To see God's amazing power through Prayer
  • Committment Journal - Record my struggles and successes to visually see progress over time
  • Personal Goals - Start doing more of the things that make me happy and save some "me" time (art, writing, reading, etc.)
  • Work - Pleasing to God, to be happy in what I do and offer my abilities whenever I can
  • Tithing and Saving - Respecting my money and using it appropriately
  • Education - Study God's word and begin thinking more about my future
  • Touch Cleansing - Relationships (family, friends, dating, God, etc.)
  • Taste Cleansing - What I eat and put into my body (food, drink, nutrition, health, etc.)
  • Smell Cleansing - Waking up and smelling the roses, appreciating small things
  • Sound Cleansing - What I listen to and hear (music, language, people, messages, truths, etc.)
  • Visual Cleansing - What I watch and see (movies, television, magazines and media, pictures, people, etc)

God's Amazing Power

In Christ Alone

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Brought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand