chocolate, and sunrises, and beaches, and writing, and lilacs, and red leaves, and piano music, and doing new things, and getting groceries (really, I do), and math (uh ha … you heard that right), and my husband, and my wonderdog, and lazy days, and snow, and …
love …
a four-letter word.
the four-letter word …
love.
It is a noun, a ‘thing’ … like pizza, or a flower, or my dog. It is a verb, an ‘action’ … like a hug, washing the dishes, sticking with ’til the end of the movie.
It is a word, made up of letters, equal doses of vowels and consonants. One vowel whispering not a peep, the other masquerading as another. No one letter taking the center stage, but all four working together to hold itself together as one. complete. word.
This word, like the word, in the beginning of the story of humanity. Like that silent ‘e’, which is never spoken … but always there … always … here.
He said “where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:3) …
who is He?
God is love (1 John 4:8)
where is He?
he (the Spirit of God) lives with you and will be in you (John 14:17)
why?
as I have loved you, so you also must love one another (John 13:34)
how?
live in me (love), and I (love) will live in you (John 15:4)
how he loves us …
itsawonderfilledlife 