TRUE LOVE: Has anyone else in your life loved you THAT much?

heh.. found this while looking for other images.. this would naturally be something to write about on Valentines Day or season... but who says you need a time to write about LOVE??
what attracted me was:

1. "sometimes you have to work for it- especially when LIFE gets in the way.."
i dont really agree with this.. as i think that LIFE will always be apart of everything..
we've to be realistic about the harshness of the world's problems, which eventually become part of our own. So, the challenge is that true love WILL BE ABLE to battle through all the harshness and the 2 people will come out victorious!

2. "true love is always worth fighting for"
ah... this is true =)
i think one way to 'TEST' how true love is, is by how much it is worth fighting for. The simplest of examples is how Jesus fought for our love. It was sooooo true that He was willing to give up to pay for our love with His OWN life, just to get us back.

Sometimes we complain that we dont feel loved... LOL= Lack of Love (so they say...) but..

Think again, has ANYONE else in YOUR life loved you THAT MUCH????

We all have a LOVE to fight for.. But lets remember that JESUS fought for us FIRST!!!!

Walking with God: Sequeal to Shadow Feet

Walking stumbling.. on these shadow feet
Toward home a land that I've never seen
Im am changing less and less asleep
Made of different stuff then when I begin...
When the world is falling out from under me
I'll be found in You, STILL STANDINGWhen time and space are through
I'll be found in You..
-Shadowfeet, Brooke Fraser-

this is a post about how i leaned on God during weirdly confusing and amazingly painful times.. its a part of John Eldredge's Waking The Dead.. hope this speaks deeply to you as it did for me =)

Walking with God

Walking with God leads to receiving His intimate counsel, and counselling leads to DEEP restoration. As we learn to walk with God and hear His voice, He is able to bring up issues in our hearts that need speaking to. Some of those wounds were enought to break our hearts, create a rift in the soul, and so we need His healing badly. This is something Jesus walks us into-sometimes through the help of another person who can listen and pray with us, smetimes with God ALONE.

As David said in Psalm 23, He leads us away, to a quiet place, to restore our soul. OUr first choise is to go with Him there- to slow down, unplug, accpet the invitation to come aside. You will never find healking in the midst of the matrix.

We need time in God's presence. This often comes as God raises some issues in our hearts or after we just relived an event that takes us straight back to that broken place, or waking up to a raw emotion.

When we're in God presence (when we spend time soaking in love songs to God in our mp3s and ipods, reading a Ransomed Heart series, reading the bible, going thru daily devotion materials, or just simply thinking about God and thanking Him for His goodness towards us), removed from distraction, we are able to hear Him more clearly in our hearts, and a secure environment has been established for the young and broken places in our hearts to surface, for Him to heal us.

He cares for everything thing you have been through no matter how it may sound and look. Remember there's a place in our heart and a longing so deep that only God can fill. Let Him in to fill you =)