When We Imagine

Let love explode and bring the dead to life … 

Today I had a conversation with a friend about this very topic … Self Pride … she hit me up saying that her “checklist” for how to love was 1 Corinthians 13 the whole thing.  Yet she realized and acknowledged that she is only human and can not meet every item in these verses 100% everyday.  At her best she thought she’s at a 65% for the year.  She admitted to struggling with verse 5:  love does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered.  So I asked God for an answer that would shed light on her struggle and this is what he gave me:

Always be mindful of your pride.  There are many times when we blame our actions on  many other things, but if we look deep beneath the surface, it is pride that is always preventing us from loving completely.  We feel we deserve certain things, that things should be done on our time or our way, etc., and things like being easily provoked, envying, being impatient, and keeping records of wrongs is due to pride.  If you take the opposite of everything in that verse it would look like this:

PRIDE is impatient, PRIDE is unkind, it DOES envy, it DOES boast, it dishonors, is self-seeking, and easily angered … etc.

So my conclusion to her was PRIDE is THE GREATEST ENEMY of LOVE because LOVE involves submitting to others and PRIDE consists of consumption of self.

I know this isn’t the typical happy post but I thought it was a profound conversation worth sharing.  It shined a light on things for both of us.  Hope it touches more people.  This is my post for Make it Over Mondays.  Happy Monday.

Thank you God for sending Your only Son to die for my sins and to rise again on this day. Love

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I love you …

I swear if I could have seen my heart last night when I looked at my phone … this is what it would have looked like.  It sure felt this way.  This blog is supposed to be to make people smile and I’ve posted Whitney and I have a few of her songs on playlist … but a few does not cover just how much I loved her.  She was my morning coffee, she was the start to my day every day.  When I needed to dance away the pain I turned her on.  When I needed to prepare for anything (sports, big event, anything) I turned her on.  She was more than just a woman with a beautiful voice to me.  For every big and small event in  my life she was there some how some way.  I loved and respected her for the talent that she was … but most of all for the human being she is.  Nothing about her was perfect and I think that’s what made me love her more.  I truly felt her pain to strive to meet others expectations.  I hope and pray people will remember her for her greatness rather than for her shortcomings.  No one is perfect but I am happy she finally gets to rest in the arms of our Father free of all the scrutiny.  Thank you Whitney for being the soundtrack to my life.  You were loved … 

The love I have for my son … It is infinite … Happy birthday