"Lord... give me the gift of faith to be renewed and shared with others each day. Teach me to live this moment only, looking neither to the past with regret, nor the future with apprehension. Let love be my aim and my life a prayer." ~Roseann Alexander-Isham

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Love the way...

"Ooh, I love the way you Love the way you love me" are lyrics to the song "The Way You Love Me" by Faith Hill. Which I just heard on my drive home from a breakfast date.

I was thinking about GOD and the way HE speaks to me, which basically shows the way HE Loves me. So the song was totally right on this morning. Strange how you can meet CHRIST even in a secular song, so to speak. But HE is around us all the time. HE continues to bless us in big and in the little small ways of each and every day. It is just whether or not we choose to see HIM and meet HIM in our moments.

It ALWAYS amazes me how GOD can lead us with a word or words. I know HE has led me over and over again to the words of Faith, Hope, and Love this year. After returning from breakfast, I decided to have a little more quiet time with HIM before continuing with my homework for class tonight.

As I was reading "Living the Message" I became aware that the titles for the past three days of devotions have been: 'Faith on the Line', 'Hope on the Line', and 'Love on the Line'. Ooh LORD, I love the way YOU love me. I love the way HE keeps taking me back to these three things: Faith, Hope, and Love. I'm anxious to find out where God continues to lead me this year with these words.

For now, let me share some of Eugene Peterson's words on the words: Faith, Hope, and Love.

Faith on the Line
...Every day I put faith on the line. I have never seen God. In a world where nearly everything can be weighed, explained, quantified, subjected to psychological analysis and scientific control I persist in making the center of my life a God whom no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, whose will no one can probe. That's a risk.

Hope on the Line
Every day I put hope on the line. ...I don't know what the future holds for me, for those whom I love, for my nation, for this world. Still, despite my ignorance and surrounded by tinny optimists and cowardly pessimists, I say that God will accomplish His will and cheerfully persist in living in the hope that nothing will separate me from Christ's love.

Love on the Line
Every day I put love on the line. There is nothing I am less good at than love. I am far better in competition than in love. I am far better at responding to my instincts and ambitions to get ahead and make my mark than I am at figuring out how to love another. I am schooled and trained in acquisitive skills, in getting my own way. And yet, I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily - open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride....

And these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13

Ooh LORD, I love the way You...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kimie, I am very glad that God is taking such good care of you. Praise God! His plan is never to be questioned, no matter how tough life gets. It appears that God is blessing you each and every day.