I am a singer who tends to hit random pitches. I Love my wife Rachel and my five children. Sierra (11), Aleya (8) Jayden (7) Jackson (7) Kaiden 3. Four of our five children are adopted so I am very interested in adoptions and the stories that go with them. I am a dairy farmer which I enjoy most of the time. Most importantly I love the Lord.
To be honest I am not sure. I think Love is many things..... I will continue to wait for a few more comments before I post on it..... Thanks for your thoughts.... You are right, that is part of love....
And Love is tough- It may mean speaking truth into someone's life. Truth that they don't necessarily want to hear. It may mean surrendering our desire to help someone in a tangable way and pointing them to Jesus. (Jesus can love them better than we can. I'm not saying this is a reason to ignore people. I'm saying we must realize that we can't fully meet a person's needs. That may mean us giving up something we could give to a person in order for them to receive something better from Jesus.)
And sometimes love is just caring for a person without saying anything. It's just letting a person cry on your shoulder.
Loving well takes wisdom. I don't think I really understand love. I'm learning... I've received love in the ways I've mentioned. I'm grateful for that.
I hope my ramblings make a little sense:) Joanne Yoder
I think we must see where love comes from to understand what it is and ultimatly what it should be.
There is no greater love than that of Christ for us as men. Thus for me to love as Christ did, I need to see people the way that He sees them and respond in like manner. As Anon said, sometimes that's tough! Jesus spoke the truth to everyone that came looking for answers, but WHY did He speak the truth so plainly? I believe that it was because he knew that the person would never experiance true love outside of his or her personal relationship to God. Thus His greatest desire was to pave the way and point us to His Father.
What does this look like in real life? Take the relationship between me and my wife. What is love and how do I show it to her? As I face the questions and decisions of the day, are my choices, to help her or not, or to say something or not, causing her to grow closer to the Lord or to struggle with her resolve to honor and respect me?
When one of the children is misbehaving and I am busy with a project, if I decide I am too busy to deal with the child, does that frustrate my wife and make her think that she is parenting alone? Or if I choose to postpone my project to more patiently deal with the child, does that not make her heart rejoice and thank God for the husband that she has?
It doesn't always work this way, sometimes both my wife and I know that I have to get some of these things done and she willingly takes over for a bit. This is much easier if she knows that I will re-join her as soon as I'm done.
If I apply this principle in all of my relationships, it not only takes my focus of off me, but lets others feel the true love of my heart, or in the other side, the lack of it.
Love is SO many different things. I think to really understand love at all we must look at God - after all, He IS love. And it seems glib saying that (after singing that song hundreds of times), but if you really stop and think about God being love, that's pretty awesome! ~Susan
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To be honest I am not sure. I think Love is many things.....
I will continue to wait for a few more comments before I post on it.....
Thanks for your thoughts....
You are right, that is part of love....
And Love is tough- It may mean speaking truth into someone's life. Truth that they don't necessarily want to hear. It may mean surrendering our desire to help someone in a tangable way and pointing them to Jesus. (Jesus can love them better than we can. I'm not saying this is a reason to ignore people. I'm saying we must realize that we can't fully meet a person's needs. That may mean us giving up something we could give to a person in order for them to receive something better from Jesus.)
And sometimes love is just caring for a person without saying anything. It's just letting a person cry on your shoulder.
Loving well takes wisdom. I don't think I really understand love. I'm learning... I've received love in the ways I've mentioned. I'm grateful for that.
I hope my ramblings make a little sense:)
Joanne Yoder
I like your ramblings.....
I think we must see where love comes from to understand what it is and ultimatly what it should be.
There is no greater love than that of Christ for us as men. Thus for me to love as Christ did, I need to see people the way that He sees them and respond in like manner. As Anon said, sometimes that's tough! Jesus spoke the truth to everyone that came looking for answers, but WHY did He speak the truth so plainly? I believe that it was because he knew that the person would never experiance true love outside of his or her personal relationship to God. Thus His greatest desire was to pave the way and point us to His Father.
What does this look like in real life? Take the relationship between me and my wife. What is love and how do I show it to her? As I face the questions and decisions of the day, are my choices, to help her or not, or to say something or not, causing her to grow closer to the Lord or to struggle with her resolve to honor and respect me?
When one of the children is misbehaving and I am busy with a project, if I decide I am too busy to deal with the child, does that frustrate my wife and make her think that she is parenting alone? Or if I choose to postpone my project to more patiently deal with the child, does that not make her heart rejoice and thank God for the husband that she has?
It doesn't always work this way, sometimes both my wife and I know that I have to get some of these things done and she willingly takes over for a bit. This is much easier if she knows that I will re-join her as soon as I'm done.
If I apply this principle in all of my relationships, it not only takes my focus of off me, but lets others feel the true love of my heart, or in the other side, the lack of it.
Love is SO many different things. I think to really understand love at all we must look at God - after all, He IS love. And it seems glib saying that (after singing that song hundreds of times), but if you really stop and think about God being love, that's pretty awesome!
~Susan
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