A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words ...

So ... to finish up my love tag, I want to share some wonderful picture/quotes about love. I am a Pinterest freak, so feel free to find and follow me there! :) 

Serious first

#1 

This is the reason we can love. Because God bothered to love us first! 

#2

This is what I've been saying guys! Agape love is a protective love that seeks the best for the one loved!

#3

Again! What I've been a sayin'! Think this one speaks for itself! ;)

Now for the fun! 

#4

This made me chuckle! This is me and my future boyfriend for sure! 

#5

Pooh Bear was my childhood, so a quote from him is always acceptable! :) 

Now, VIDEOS! 

Fun One!

Serious One!

(Songs owned by Anthem Lights)

So, that's all guys! I hope my love rants have helped you! Remember, wait for that Agape Love! It'll be so stinkin' worth it! 

True Love Waits

So my last post was on what love does. How it acts.

This post is no different! :) 

Honestly, this is something that I've been thinking about a lot. When will the man God has for me show up? How will I know when he does? What if *gasp* he is already there and I'm friends with him?!

Isn't that a weird thought? I mean, I know quite a few guys (maybe you're even reading this!) and they're amazing, amazing people. 

I think one of the most profound posts I've ever read about guys and romantic relationships is this one here: 

I think this is so relevant! We girls (I don't know about guys!) fall for a Prince Charming. If we think you're cute, we fall and usually fall pretty hard. 

But that's not love! 

We say "Oh, he's my Prince Charming!" and that's fine and dandy! But I think Knight in Shining Armor is better. And even then we should scratch the shining! 

Knights had a pretty awful job. They fought, they worked, and they always had to be on guard. In short, they had to deal with the nitty gritty crap in the castle life. They got messy. They didn't always have perfect hair and clothes. Their armor got dirty and they had to clean it.

I think as girls, we have this unrealistic expectation of what guys are going to do for us. I know I do sometimes.   

I want to tell you girls something. (Sorry to all my guy readers! This one's for the girls!)

 The man you marry is not going to be perfect.

Let me repeat that:

The man you marry is not going to be perfect! 

Shocking, I know. I mean, he's human. He's going to do things that annoy you. He's going to squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle, he's going to leave his shoes out in the middle of the hallway, he's not going to always understand you. He's going to have bad days, days he's not going to be there for you because he has his own problems.

He's going to be a lot like you.

You , too, are going to do things that are going to drive him nutty! Habits that are so normal are going to be pet peeves you didn't know existed. That's life! 

But I think that's what makes love so very important. (Guys you can tune back in now!)  Love is looking past the flaws and the things they do that drive us crazy. Love is taking the baggage we both have and carrying it together. Love is listening when they've had an awful day and pushing our own problems back. Not to say our problems aren't important. They are. But love is dealing with it as a team. Never giving up, no matter the struggles, the tears, the hurt. 

That is the love we find in 1 Corinthians 13. That, my friends is Agape Love.

This is the goal, guys and gals. Not to find Mr Perfect or Miss Wonderful. No! It's to find the person God has for you. The one who is perfect. not in they have no flaws, but perfect in that God has made them for you. They're going to have flaws and problems. We all do. 

But love past that.

Better yet.

Love thru that. 

That's true love my friends!

If you're with someone right now who doesn't love you like that, with a love that knows no bounds, them please end it! You are so special! You're so worth a person who loves you for you, flaws and all! 

And if  you're not in a relationship ... wait! 

Wait for the person who will love you with an Agape Love. Someone who is so stinkin' worth it that no matter the struggle, no matter the pain, no matter what the heck life throws at you, the two of you will face it hand in hand. 

Trust me guys! 

I think it's going to be worth the wait for that kind of love. 

Love: Perfect When In Christ

Love. 

Such a little word for such a completely confusing, wonderful emotion! 

We use it rather flippantly though, don't we? I think we've forgotten what love truly is! 

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

So I want to talk about love. 

I've "been in love" many, many times. I've though I met Mr Perfect. That he could do no wrong, that he walked on water. I've made excuses, I've ignored my friends counsel. 

And it wasn't love. 

He ended up hurting me. Breaking my heart. 

I guess that's why they're called "crushes".

But ... love. 

1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 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. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 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. 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.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13 is commonly called the Love Chapter of the Bible. I love it! 

One thing I've heard, is that if you're crushing on someone put their name in for love.

"______ is patient. _______ is kind..."

This shows you what kind of person you're falling for. 

But I think what's more important is this. 

1 John 4:16 b

"...God is love..."

So, if God is love, He is the highest standard of love. 

I mean, for real! God let His son die for our sin! If that isn't love, what is?! 

If God's love is the standard of love, than how are we to compete? 

We can't.

God's love is perfect. God's love never leaves. God's love never fails! 

But on to the fact of love between two people. 

A man and a woman. 

I haven't met my man yet. Or if I have I don't know it yet! :) 

But I am...

1) Praying for him.

2) Keeping a journal  to give to him on our wedding day

3) Saving my heart for him

And while it's hard to wait, I know I'm being molded into the woman I am supposed to be for him. 

God's timing is perfect and I know when I meet him, I will fall head over heels for him. And I will seek to have a 1 Corinthians love. 

Love ...

Hard yet simple...

Wonderful and awful...

Perfect when in Christ.