I saw something this morning that posed a question. It asked “What has love taught you?” That’s an awfully long list for a couple paragraphs. I honestly feel like I could go on all day about it.
Love taught me happiness and joy. You know that feeling you get when you know someone loves you, or even better when you love them. You get those butterflies that seem to pop up every time you hear their name, see their face, or better yet the elation you feel when you get to hug them tight.
Love taught me pain and hurt. In a lot of cases the more you love, the more you care, the more you get hurt. The hurt caused by love is varying and so very real. Have you ever loved someone that left, loved someone who didn’t feel the same way, or loved someone who you lost? That pain cuts like a knife to your soul and you will never be the same after.
Love taught me patience. As painful as that is it was a lesson I needed to learn. The Bible says “Love is patient” and Brad wasn’t. I wasn’t as patient with my family as I should’ve been, I had zero patience when it came to work, and the scary thing remains I was less patient with me than with anything else in this life. I have allowed the lack of patience to make me anxious, quick tempered, and sometimes down right mean.
Luckily after patience Love taught me forgiveness. As hard as patience was forgiveness made it look like a walk in the park. I struggle with forgiveness as I have written before, but it isn’t with others. I have overlooked all of the bad that has been done to me, I have moved past the pain caused by others, and I will continue to love them no matter how bad I was hurt. Some of them I have to love from afar but I never stop loving them none the less. My problem with forgiveness has always been with forgiving myself. I know my shortcomings, I know my failures, I know what kind of person I am inside, and how unlovable I can be.
While I tell you love has taught me all of these things, I don’t want you to think I have perfected them. I am still a work in progress, butI am so thankful for all that love has taught me. I am so thankful that I am given a heart to love. I am even more grateful that the creator of the universe loved us so that he sent his son to die for our sins, so that we may know what his Love feels like.
Thank you God for all of the lessons, thank you for redemption, thank you for your son, and thank you for still loving someone like me.
I love you.
bradglenn79 