Love changes people. You can tell if someone is well-loved when their eyes sparkle, when they don't have to try too hard, when they smile for no reason. Love builds confidence. It is a certainty, a safety. A knowing you are never alone, even when apart.
Hate cannot stand when true Love enters the picture. Anger cannot be maintained, grudges cannot continue to fester. Hurt and sadness begin to heal when exposed to it.
It is not infatuation (an object of extravagant, short-lived passion), it is steady, it never wavers, it never fails.
I have been changed by Love this year. I can honestly look back 12 months at the girl I was and say with great relief and thankfulness: "I am not the same!" Nor do I ever want to be the same. I allowed Love in. I allowed Jesus to rearrange me. It was the most painful, terrible, eye-opening, heart-wrenching, teary-eyed, hurtful year of my life. And I wouldn't exchange a day. I am not the same.
Praise. God.
When Jesus comes He comes with a fierceness that nothing can stand against. His love is not weak, nor is it always comforting. It is Strong and it will change you. Sometimes that involves breaking. Not to hurt or to harm, but out of compassion and for our good. Because He is good. It is true that at our weakest point, when we've come to the end of us, we find our strength in Him. As I look back on 2012 I am grateful for this Love, for my Love. Thank you Lord for allowing me to live another year, every day is a gift. Help me to remember that every day and not take a breath for granted. Thank you that I am not the same, change me to be more like you during 2013. I want my love to match Yours.
'Take my life and let it be
Consecrated Lord to Thee
Take my moments and my days
Let them flow in endless praise
Take my love, my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store
Take myself and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.'
-Frances R. Havergal
'Heartbreak don't exist when it's been torn apart by Love' - MJB
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