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You Are Loved



How often do you say I love you?

Every day? Once a week?

Who do you say I love you to?

Your spouse? Your kids? Your friends?

In our world today we love everything. We love those new pair of shoes or that new dress we got on sale.  We even love the food that we eat or a delicious piece of chocolate cake. But do we really love anything. I mean really love. Not just I got a funny feeling in my stomach or I feel really strongly about this but real love?

I often wonder if we even know what love really means.

Love, according to a google search, is an intense feeling of deep affection or(as a verb) feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone.

Another definition described it as a devoted affection.

We throw around the word love so easily now, that it has begun to lose its full meaning.

When I see women on Valentine's Day, many women are full of smiles about the gifts they received or anticipating the gifts that are coming. Others are sad and full of depression, feeling unloved, unwanted, and abandoned on this day that our culture celebrates love...something they do not feel they have.

What we are all forgetting is to celebrate that love that beats all others..the sacrificial love of our Almighty Creator! He loves us in such a way that He was willing to send Jesus to the cross for something that we did.  I know some of you moms out there are like me, you wouldn't let your child get punished for something that another child had done, right?  Fortunately for us, God was a bit more gracious than we are!

Not to mention that His love is unconditional! Wow! That is a big one!

Today, people like to had a way out when someone mistreats us. We don't want to love the abusive or cheating spouse, the friend that betrayed us, or the boss that is always such a jerk. They don't deserve our love, right? They have done nothing to earn it and nothing to keep it and EVERYTHING to lose it!

But we are called to love, as Christ loved us, and gave his life for us.

Now this is something I have to work towards...it is just HARD to love some people! It doesn't seem fair to have to love those who don't show love to us.

But today, I challenge you all, to love. Love is not easy, but it is patient, kind, honest, generous, not angry, not envious, not boastful or arrogant. Love pbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things.

Remember this, even of you are single today, you ARE loved. You are loved by our heavenly Father, who loves deeper than any man can love.

I pray that you all find a peace in knowing that you are loved.

Cheryl


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