at the end of the day remember LOVE ...

Even in the darkest days and most frustrating days...at the end I feel at peace knowing LOVE stands.
Love is not just an emotion...yes it is for sure full of emotion, but love is so much more.

Love is when you push through hard times, when you don't communicate or communication is just missed because each of the you are  tired... but you never stop, you push forth in love and desire to love.. Love never stops.
Love never stops pursuing and pushing forth to love strong to love passionately, caringly, and honestly.

I'm learning what LOVE is...I'm learning what it looks like, sounds like, smells like, speaks like, walks like...who Love is. God has been showing me through my sweet, dear, loving boyfriend what love looks like...and love never gives up.

When we are frustrated with the 2,000 or so miles between us... we state that frustrating in honesty, and how we miss one another and how other couples around us are so lucky to see each other face to face - but at the end of the day we are so thankful for one another and the blessing of each other. There is such a joy and fulfillment as we walk with one another and when we see each other we continue to see love.  Even more so just seeing our love... we see God's love. This relationship, gift of love is just a small glimpse of God's perfect love for all of us that is love that is beauty.

In the book of Hosea, Gomer is a prostitute that is pursued by a loving gentleman  named Hosea. Gomer is a runner...a runner in life...she runs away from this man Gomer that loves her for her...to the core of her being.  Hosea- this man that is pure, caring, kind, and a man that knows love from the direct fountain of love, pursues and loves Gomer strongly. Gomer runs as runners do returning to her old ways, habits - she feels she doesn't deserve Hosea...but more so she doesn't know how to be in love...to be submerged, engulfed taken over in the most beautiful way by true enriching healing Love. The beauty of this relationship  comes through the desire and pursuance Hosea has to chase after Gomer and show her in all ways what Love truly is. He never stops running after her to bring her back to safety, to beauty... and back to love. This story is a picture of God and His children, His people, His bride- and His pursuance of us.

I'm a runner like Gomer and my boyfriend is like Hosea continuing to pursue me even if I'm afraid and try to sprint from his loving encouraging words, and even conversation- running from love, because of it's greatness. In all of this running he continue to pursue; He shows me God's pursuance.

In relationships we need to pursue one another- pushing through frustration, pushing through fear, uncertainty and push in love for love.

Love is spoken about flippantly. Love is not just a word but a reaction, action, feeling, relationship- giving and receiving, communication, trust, hope, believing, dreaming, frustrations, weakness redeemed, beauty, its a reality, full, enduring, and ever growing. God is perfect love... He is Love, the essence the being the action, the everything of perfect Love. 

In your relationships look at your loved one... see them and remember the push is always for each other. The push, "the climb," draws you to one another, and to the Father...stronger, closer, and deeper in love.

Remember at the end of the day you are at peace...never go to bed frustrated, endure and thrive in this love, this union.

This day remember love is worth fighting for... He fights for you every second. Step out, throw fear to the wayside, walk...walk in Love

Fight to be swept away, submerged, engulfed in true LOVE...you won't be disappointed.

^"1 If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.  ⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
 ⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
 ¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."  


- 1 Corinthians 13 -