Girl, You Know I Love You

Good Morning,


To be loved, Oh what a feeling?!!!! Love, that four letter word that could have you sitting on cloud nine and thinking its just you and your man against the world. Love, that four letter word that could also have you feeling brokenhearted, hurt, and unwanted. People always say that LOVE will make you do crazy things! But what exactly is LOVE? When people say I LOVE YOU are they really meaning what they say or are they just saying it because its what you WANT to HEAR? There is a difference between being "in love" and loving someone. Can you really love someone without being in love with them?

We all go through the "in love" phase in relationships were we have that feeling of being on cloud nine and were we'll do anything and everything we can do make the other person happy. But our actions are based on emotions. Being "in love" is based on emotions and having that cloud nine feeling when we meet someone that we are attracted to. Being in love can have you on an emotional high, it can have you limiting yourself in getting to know that person, and it can also have you thinking that the person your with is perfect. But how can we truly LOVE someone if we are blinded by what we want to see.

LOVE in its simplest form, is a pure choice we make to love someone in spite of their imperfections, flaws, insecurities, etc. without letting our emotions mislead us. When two people love each other, they are looking to grow to create something that is much greater than themselves. Love requires hard work, effort, consistency, discipline, time. We all have a need for love and to be genuinely and unconditionally loved by one another. But we must look to God as our source of love before we look elsewhere. God is love. HE is the one that loves unconditionally, HE is the one that accepts us for who we are, HE is the one that will be there will things are falling apart, HE is the one that will never leave, HE is the one that will never break your heart but will heal what is broken, He is our provider, protector, leader, confidant, HE IS OUR EVERYTHING!!!!

We all have that desire to be loved and wanted by that guy that we like or have a crush on. But God loves us and he wants us to have a REAL AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIP with HIM FIRST!  When we get to know God and experience his presence everything else will fall into place. Also, SELF-LOVE is important. We must get to know ourselves and LOVE what God created. I struggled with that in accepting myself and loving myself and not being ashamed of what God created. He created a work of art and how dare I be embarrassed with what he made. We must embrace and love ourselves first and foremost. How can you possibly love someone and not love YOU first!

Be Blessed

Christina