Love Not Like

I believe you can love someone with a special set apart love, but not like them. It's this odd feeling of "eeerrrrrggggggggg you irritate me!!! Drop dead..." but also "Tell me if you hurt, why you hurt, how you hurt. I want to know and I was to make it better!" It's so strange because these feelings so contradict each other.

I am going through these strange feelings at this exact moment. Something that I've found is that often, these feelings will arise because what that person is going through is similar in someway to something you're going through, or have gone through. Often a characteristic that someone has that irritates the heck out of you... Is something that you struggle with as well, in some way.

So I believe God puts these feelings of love and compassion in you so that you can love this person in situations where others may not.

Don't get me wrong! You. Do. Not. Have. To. Be. Best. Friends. With. This. Person!!!!! But all those times that that person pops up in your mind throughout the day, pray for them. I'm telling you!! For a while, every time this person popped up in my mind I would think ugly thoughts and how much I was upset at that person, but praying for them... MUCH more peaceful and fulfilling. It makes me hopeful and calm.

So don't let that love go to wast. Let God love through you.

Philippians 1:6 He who began a good work in you with be faithful to complete it.

Food for Thought

If someone brings you down, makes you feel bad about yourself, does not make you happy in any little way, and is not a necessary person in your life, do not make them a priority in your life. I mean, there are DEFINITELY some cases where God will put you in someone's life and them in yours to allow us to learn something and to maybe bless or be blessed. Sometimes it's really funny (and maybe a little frustrating) who God will put in your life to love, and no matter how much you want to hate that person, God puts that love inside you. But that being said, there is a time for everything and when the time of having that person in your life has ended, you have to be willing to let go (which can be a very hard and painful thing to do) so that God can bring something or someONE new and better into your life. Being able to let go is so important. And being able to love even when you want to hate someone who has hurt you is even more important.

So yeah... that's my food for thought from God on this lovely night as I sit here with my tea, my journal, and the sunset.

Philippians 1:6 He who began a SPLENDID work in you WILL be FAITHFUL to COMPLETE it.