I've learned that life is hard, EVERYONE's life is hard at one time or another (or for some it seems to always be hard) and our role in this life is to make someone's road that much easier when we cross paths. Yes, we are all crazy in one way or another, and to different degrees, but we should try and see past the craziness and see the humanity in each other and try to just make it that much easier for each other. Let's not give in to the easy way...by criticizing, by being mean, by trying to force our perspective on one another...let's just try to remember that we have no IDEA what that person might be going through and that we don't have to be one more stumbling block on their road this day.
I've also learned that we reap what we sow. NO matter what, whether good or bad. If you put work into something, it will pay back. If you don't give of yourself, you will get nothing in return. If you give of your all, you will get it all back and more. Trust me, this is true. Just give and see if it doesn't work!
Another thing I've learned, is that God loves us more than we will ever know. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around a little bit of this ocean of thought. It is too grand for me, too awesome and I will never understand it... but I do know that He loves us. For so much of this year, I was in anguish over the thought that He was not on my side. That He was this grand comedian, playing with me. How horrible is that thought? I know...horrible. Slowly but surely, though, I've come back again and remembered again that I am LOVED by the great Creator. That He has me in his hands and will not let me fall. Even though He does discipline those He loves, He will always be our protector as well. What an awesome thing to know and believe again! It's very lonely and scary when you don't believe you are protected by God.
I've learned that Love really does conquer all. When we were married, some of the verses that were read was 1 Corinthians 13. I now see and know that these verses are so true. True love is great, but TRIED and true love is the ultimate. So I'll finish this post with the verses and pray that no matter what, that whoever reads this has Love in their life and that you take the time to thank God for that Love and let it rain blessings over you today. God Bless.
13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, [1] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [2] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
