Love, Love, Love

So Roger and I have started a daily devotions for dating couples, we are on day 3 and have 9 weeks to go. The first week is focusing on love, and what true love really is. The thing that has stuck with me the most, is that we can not truly love another human until we have experienced the love of the lord! Maybe experienced isn't the correct word.. We have to accept the love of the Lord, and then recepercate this love back to him.
Our lord has to be our one true love, the one that we desire and long for... This love, longing and desire has to come before any other love. I truly think we can't love another without loving God first! The Lord's love is real, and true, and unconditional, and raw, and even painful at times. But its still pure and refreshing... This is the type of love that I want in my life, but I know that if I don't have this love with the lord first, I will never be able to love another unconditionally.
If we allow our spiritual flame to fizzle out with the Lord, it is only a matter a time before our flames in our earthly relationships will fizzle out too..
Keep your love for the lord first, seek him, long for him daily, and you will expierence true love! And then only then can you truly love another...

Life

Wow, I can't even remember the last time I have been to this website.... I was so excited that I was going to be able to write and share my thoughts with all of you.. But some how life took over. Part of me wants to say "that's life'' but another part of me feels like I have been neglecting all of you, myself, but mostly the Lord. God has blessed me with a gift, and my gift has nothing to do with writing ( I still have a long way to go when it comes to being a "good writer") but the Lord has blessed with a story that is to be shared. My story isn't just one story,its an on going story. And as life started and took over, I stopped telling my story! And for that I apologize. I can only hope that I do better from here on out.
Why now you ask? I don't know, maybe I don't want life to take over, maybe I want to take over my life! Where I am today, is a blessing from God, and I am forever grateful. But I am honest and can say that I have taken life for granted.
We are only given this one life, embrace it, all of it. There is going to be good and bad times, but that's life. Praise God for your life, and live it for his will. There is no other way!
My past has made me who I am today, and who I am today is going to make me who I will be in the future.