"What else do we have to do while we’re here?" It was so profound when he said that to
me. I said it over and over to myself,
“What else do we have to do while we’re
here?”
I was wrestling with the grip love has on me. I held our breathtakingly
beautiful girl before she fell asleep and tears of love welled up because that
gut wrenching love overtook me.
I think of this momma I know. Her son has a mental illness and she gives
every ounce of herself to him. To the
naked eye her love isn’t returned. She
once said to me, “We can never know how our children’s lives will turn
out. We do our best and we love them.” And tonight she is poured out and she loves
him.
Loving people hurts.
Sacrificially loving people hurts worse.
I mean really giving of myself
or being vulnerable with someone… then to risk losing them or them not
reciprocating... that hurts. Might it be
best to just avoid that whole type of love?
Keep up masks, seek self pleasure, walk away when my toes are stepped
on.
In my journey to loving God wholeheartedly, I didn’t expect
that as He grips me more, everyone else would do the same. Truly loving Him inevitably means we will
love all people more. The essence of
that gripping love invades all areas.
I wrestle. I say
outloud, “It’s just so hard… this type of love hurts, because… they could be
gone tomorrow.”
Brent says simply and and so right, “What else do we have to
do while we’re here?”
Yes, what else do we have to do but LOVE.
We can chase the counterfeit fillers of being known, or doing stuff, or getting stuff. I’ve
learned that those are empty highs. This
Love thing is different. He made it that
way.
That’s what Jesus did.
He says giving is better than receiving.
That laying down our life is the way to find life. That our highest points of life are our most
humbled times. He was our example of
giving ourselves for the sake of love.
When life gets confusing, stressful, or painful, let’s be
reminded that all we really have to do while we’re here is love God and each
other. Pretty simple.
