Learning to Love

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." 1 John 4:7-8 NASB

What are you doing? Where are you going? Do you think you are in control? That's what I used to believe. I believed in myself. Self. Alone. There is nothing more miserable than being alone all the time.

Your mommy taught me how to love again. And when you came along, I learned that I had no idea that one could love and be loved so deeply. Then guess what I learned : GOD IS LOVE - and His Love in our hearts is a love that we can share as husbands and wives, families and friends, communities, churches, nations, and peoples...He is the Source. We are able to know and experience the Love of our Lord through each other, as long as we are open to receiving and radiating His Love.

Be willing to be Loved by the Lord. This is the first step in learning to love all people...even your enemies. Start at the Source: 1) Let Him Love you, 2) love Him, and 3) love with His Love.

I love you.

-Daddy

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love."
-1 Corinthians 13 NASB