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October 23, 2005
Love...my perspective
"Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart" ~1 Peter 1:22
I have been thinking a lot recently about love. It's one of those words in the English language that just doesn't seem to suffice in many of its uses. The world sometimes protrays it is an emotion or a feeling. Before I got married many reminded me that love is a choice. I've come up with my own summary of what I think it means to love some one....it is to suffer with them. It's almost guaranteed that if love someone there will be pain and suffering. Whether it be from them hurting you personally, a wound that comes back from the past, a sin that just keeps popping up, a situation that is out of your control. Being willing to enter into their pain and suffer with them is when love goes from a word to being real.
This past week my wife's grandfather passed away. I had met him a couple times but never really got to know him, so I could have just detached from the situation as I had no ties to him. But because I love my wife, I held her hand, gave her hugs, wiped away her tears as we went to Solon to see him while he was alive, as we went to the hospital when he got real sick, as he passed away despite the best efforts of the doctors, as he lay in casket for the visitation and funeral.
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October 16, 2005
Personal Song List
A couple months ago I found my copy of Kurt Cobain's "Journals." As I leafed through it, reading a page here and there, I noticed he repeatedly was making lists of songs. Top 50 of all time, top 25 inluential bands on him, etc. After reading this I started making a mental list of the top songs I enjoy singing and that help me connect to God. I wouldn't say this list is in any order of importance, but more in the order I would want to sing them.
Meet with me
Hungry
Amazing Grace
Thank You
Amazing Love
King of this Heart
You Said
Blessed be your name
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