and the concept of love is so hard to grasp why???

God has taught me a lot about love over the past year or so, and i have learned so much about loving people. honestly, i have learned to love others - or at least i have improved. i am not saying by any means that i have perfected the art, but i have most certainly progressed! one key thing that i have learned from my pastor, butch (such a heart for the Lord!) is that i have to love others as they want to be loved, not how i want to love them. this is quite challenging because as humans, it only makes sense to us to love others the way we want to love them - often the way we want to be loved. but this is almost always not the way they want to be loved! it's as my friend adam says - it's simple, but it's not easy!

enter new challenge: letting others love me. who would have thought this would be harder than loving others?! but to be honest, i had no idea that i had such a difficult time letting others love me. as of now, i am still very unsure of how this works - i feel this will be even harder than the first lesson. but i guess that makes sense.

i encourage ya'll to love each other as Christ calls us to love - selflessly and wholly, no strings attached. i also encourage ya'll to encourage each other, cuz let's be honest...this is hard! but as walt disney once said - keep moving forward!