L-O-V-E.

My mind has been thinking about the concept of love lately - in all it's aspects. I love a lot of things. I love coffee, I love sleeping, I love my family, I love long car rides, I love watching movies, I love reading, I love...and the list goes on and on. Yes, a person can love a lot of things, but do people always necessarily think about love in their actions? Ha; made you think.

See, my mother always told me I was a kind person with a "sensitive spirit"; and I guess I never really knew what that meant, or how it was significant to me. Okay, I am a nice person, I mean, lots of people are. But, in talking with other people, apparently I am overly nice, but to me, that's just me being me. Yes, I am that girl that knows her valet friends won't take a tip from her, so she buys them pastries at a local bakery to thank them, or throws their mother a surprise birthday part after she's had a rough few months. I do that, yes. But what drives those kinds of deeds? Love. 

1 Corinthians 16:14 -- Do everything in love.

God tells us to love thy neighbor, but do we really love everyone and treat everyone with love? It's easy to tell people we love them, it's just words, right? But, to really mean love, you have to show it. No, you don't have to be entirely fond of people, you could possibly think they are the ickiest human to ever walk the planet, but you should still treat them with love. Open the door for a stranger, in love. Buy the person behind you in the drive-thru line their coffee, in love. Smile at someone, in love. It doesn't take much to show someone love. Just think of the great Samaritan, he did what he did out of love, and impacted a life. You never know what another person could be going through and your simple gesture of God's love through you can make their day, heck, their week - maybe even impact their life. 

I am not the best example of loving everyone, because I am human like you. But, I have been working on it. Some people would call it "being the bigger person" when you are being kind to someone who was rotten to you; but you were rotten to God for sometime and He still loved you anyway, am I right? The correct answer is YES. 

So, go out and live in love, and God will most definitely reward you.

Matthew 25:40 -- "And the King will say, 'I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!'

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