Hi, 

I'm thinking about love today. Well.... to be honest I can't really describe how I've been thinking about it unless I tell you about the daydream I had in Church this morning.

I was in another country. A village. Like the typical, wild, village that you imagine when you think of missionary work. And I was talking to the people. They didn't really know of me as a missionary and I wasn't there because I wanted to share Christ. I was just there, as their friend living with them. I had God's love in me. SO in me that it beamed from my face and fell with my words and sang with my laughter. I could tell the people who were around me were really enjoying my company.

So, I began a new subject with them. I said "Hey, I want to share something with you." They were all listening. I took the example of something that this village worked with and harvested like a spice. I told them about how their spice is rare to find in it's pure form and how they are always looking for the purest they can find. They are always loving they results of the spice and what it does. Then I said, my love is your impure spice. My God is the absolutely purest form of the love I have... the purest spice.

They said, "Wow! You are so wise!" I said "No! My god is so wise!" It was this that began to make them want to know my God because they saw how much i really loved them... and I was the impure spice.

Thinking about this, God made me understand how much of a testimony that Love is to people. How much showing HIS love to people is.

This is my hugest desire in life with people.. it always has been. I want to love them.. really love them. I know, especially of late, I don't love people the way I should all the time. ... you know, not just to their face, but in my heart.