I have coined a new phrase. Okay I didn't create it but I am borrowing it with a few edits. I told you in an earlier post about how I love hearing Beth Moore speak. She can speak for hours and there is always one comment that pierces me. That is what happened a few weeks ago. "Love big or go home."
I am sure a few of you can relate to the theatrics that siblings carry out when they argue with each other. Nickolas, my 9 year old nugget, wouldn't hurt a fly and Jocelyn, my 7 year old, takes full advantage. She has pestered, picked on, and just been plain mean to the truest friend she has. She has already mastered the perfect sequence of buttons that can push him into a frenzy.
So I have been trying to teach them both how to love BIG. To love in an all consuming way that there leaves no doubt our intentions for each other. Jocie needs to love at all times and not when it is convenient for her. She can't pick and chose the moments she decides to love like Jesus. Nickolas needs to learn to love with no expectation and the knowledge that sometimes loving may not yield results. Loving can just be plain hard!!!
Beth Moore said "love big or go home" but I just don't think going home should even be an option. As Christians if we convey Jesus love then it is always flowing; no turn off handle. I think convenient love is the most popular route people take these days. I mean look at social media? We are able to get tons of likes and complimentary comments with no strings attached. We just have a very easy and simple unfollow button that gets hit too quickly.
Let's be honest relationships are hard wether it is between friends, families, lovers, and/or drivers on the highway passing you by. I think the devil delights when we fail or get failed by relationships. How easily pieces of our heart harden. The pain and disappointment just chips away and sometimes never gets replaced. Yeah the devil swoons while we mourn.
Granted there are some relationships that need to be abandoned because they don't grow in God but should the love lessen? Would we choose not to love if we knew what the end result would become? Do we pick who we love based on what we believe their "love us back" percentage is? How many of us love others only because it makes us feel about our choices?
I am sure a few of you can relate to the theatrics that siblings carry out when they argue with each other. Nickolas, my 9 year old nugget, wouldn't hurt a fly and Jocelyn, my 7 year old, takes full advantage. She has pestered, picked on, and just been plain mean to the truest friend she has. She has already mastered the perfect sequence of buttons that can push him into a frenzy.
So I have been trying to teach them both how to love BIG. To love in an all consuming way that there leaves no doubt our intentions for each other. Jocie needs to love at all times and not when it is convenient for her. She can't pick and chose the moments she decides to love like Jesus. Nickolas needs to learn to love with no expectation and the knowledge that sometimes loving may not yield results. Loving can just be plain hard!!!
Beth Moore said "love big or go home" but I just don't think going home should even be an option. As Christians if we convey Jesus love then it is always flowing; no turn off handle. I think convenient love is the most popular route people take these days. I mean look at social media? We are able to get tons of likes and complimentary comments with no strings attached. We just have a very easy and simple unfollow button that gets hit too quickly.
Let's be honest relationships are hard wether it is between friends, families, lovers, and/or drivers on the highway passing you by. I think the devil delights when we fail or get failed by relationships. How easily pieces of our heart harden. The pain and disappointment just chips away and sometimes never gets replaced. Yeah the devil swoons while we mourn.
Granted there are some relationships that need to be abandoned because they don't grow in God but should the love lessen? Would we choose not to love if we knew what the end result would become? Do we pick who we love based on what we believe their "love us back" percentage is? How many of us love others only because it makes us feel about our choices?
Choosing to love someone can be viewed as a big risk and loving big can be a sacrifice. But what if loving big is really the simplest and easiest way? Loving with no hopes to gain. Loving with no underlying motives to get more then your willing to give. Loving big like Jesus might be the glue that holds our tender hearts together and fixes the chipped pieces.
In the world of parenting I am just hoping for less name calling and even less crying when someone is bombed on Minecraft.
In the world of fixing myself I just want to love so enormously that no one ever doubts who my Father is.
With endless love,
Kristie
Kristie
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