LOVE

I'd like to think I'm pretty honest.  Maybe too honest sometimes?  But, I can't help it.  I really dislike when people only share the pretty.  Life is not always pretty & if you hide your sin what does that say about you?  I think it says that you maybe you don't understand grace?  Jesus didn't come to die on a cross as he bore the weight of our sin so that we could hide it and be the pharisees as if our lives are perfect and we are more righteous than the next. Does that make sense?  He came that we may encourage one another.  That we may have fellowship & give love and mercy and grace.  That we may be saved from that sin that we insist on hiding.  So, I guess I sometimes feel I owe it to YOU, my friend, my family, a stranger but sister in Christ none the less, to be honest.  Sometimes Matthew & I struggle.  Like for reals.  We are two incredibly selfish sinners still working on our marriage...as I assume we always will be.  At times we've questioned what we've gotten ourselves into and how long it will be until we get to share to young couples in the season we find ourselves in now that LOVE is worth fighting for.  We are still in the "fighting for it stage" but how wonderful will it be when I can come here and say "God has redeemed what we have screwed up and we have come out to the other side on top.  Stronger.  Holier.  Less selfish and more selfless"  With all that mumbo-jumbo honesty stuff said, I found this on a blog I love from Jane Caroline & I absolutely love it.  It brought me to tears, it made me open my Bible and it has filled my heart with truth.  May it bless you, too.

Love is Not A Fight by Warren Barfield

 

Love is not a place
To come and go as we please
It's a house we enter in
And then commit to never leave
So lock the door behind you
Throw away the key
We'll work it out together
Let it bring us to our knees

Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
If we try to leave may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it's something worth fighting for

To some, love is a word that they can fall into
But when they're falling out
Keeping that word is hard to do

Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
If we try to leave may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it's something worth fighting for

Love will come to save us, if we'll only call
He will ask nothing from us, but demand we give our all

Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
If we try to leave may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it's something worth fighting for

I would fight for you, would you fight for me?
It's worth fighting for.