True Love presupposes...

Love presupposes a

 confidence, 

loyalty & trust.

Assumes the others’ ability

     to return the affection,

a must.

Love is a nearness,

     a connection of souls.

It requires a dialogue

of honesty to grow &

take hold.

There are no walls,

     no separation in love.

Love comes from the

unceasing expanse of heaven above.

Love opens its heart to the

other and trusts

no harm to come.

Love knows where its

power and protection come from.

Love embraces the passions

     and cares of a friend.

Assumes the burden of

woe,  so the other

does not bend.

Love joins together

     under adversity.

It does not crumble at the

first attack of the enemy.

Love seeks the good

     in another’s heart.

Holds onto the Joy

     of which they are a part.

Love looks past the wrongs,

     the failings & the faults.

All anger, animosity and

     ambivalence halts.

Love’s motives are

     caring and pure.

It desires God’s best

     for the other to endure.

Love loves.

  

But Wait?

The morning was just beautiful! I took the prayer labyrinth guide with me today to walk the labyrinth and read those particular scriptures. Remember those bamboo shoot that started last week? Well….they have grown two feet!

And there are more! Made me chuckle when I saw one right in the middle of the path. I could see that there will be a way to move the walkway a bit and it will work out just fine, but you know me…I chuckled. Now, I certainly could get a chain saw and just take these out…that is an option. But, these will grow to tower over me, to shade our home, to shelter the birds. They only look like asparagus right now, but just wait a month or two and it will be amazing!  

God does this all the time with us! We’re just walking thru our lives and poof! something shoots up in front of us. It would help me when that happens, if I would just remember that God already has a way around it…PLUS, He put, or allowed it there!

Maybe it is a person, who doesn’t seem to be all that involved in our life right now, but wait…

or it is a job that you’re not sure of, but wait

or a move you really don’t want to make, but wait

or a fill in your own blank shoot here, but wait.

One reason to wait is just like these shoots. Last year they began to come up and I thought it was going to be a real problem. At full growth there would have been no squeezing thru the path…so I waited. I have no idea why, but they just died back. Now, they're just two little brown asparagus. And I had nothing to do with it…other than the waiting. 

Some of our obstacles in life are “waiting” opportunities. They are there to grow us in our trust that God really does have a plan. He will move the obstacle or move the path. And truly, the “moving the path” part, that’s just our perception of things. God knows what our path is, all we have to do is give Him one step at a time.

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

Matthew 6:34 ~ The Message Version