May 21, 2013 10:54
Sometimes, when you look back at things. When you look at your former self. Even the decisions you made last week, a month ago, a year ago and 5 minutes ago. We are constantly changing. Changing to our former-self to newness. . " No Longer I but Christ in Me." As I reflect on that passage, the more we seek his Face and not only his hand. We look at the severity of our hearts. How beauty can love a beast. When we recognize that we are flawed, our own imperfections and our own weakness but yet something so beautiful can constantly love us. In our weakness, our flawed self can only be true reflection on How much God loves us. Our own imperfections was replaced by perfect gesture of sacrfice on the Cross. His Love. For the imperfect was replace by perfect. The battery life of our lives was replaced by a fully charged life of Christ to fully recharge us for the journey, he has placed on our own individual lives.
""I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33
No wonder why I always liked Beauty and the Beast (Disney Movie).When we realized that we too can change, we too can make that choice to Love to turn around. When we grasp the concept of what Grace is and truly forgive not only others but especially yourself. You now will have to decide and to choose to Love. It is and always will be a choice. A choice to see the goodness in others, the choice to see the storm and the calmness as a choice to constantly Love. It is a choice.
"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known..."
So hold on because When we Hope, we see his work. when we have faith without borders.We see his creative hands. when we learn to Love God, ourselves and others. We see the beauty in the beast. Love never fails.
" God, Let us remember that we are no greater than You.
How you can love us with our imperfections. Your true love.
Let us remember to have faith in the storms or in the calm.
To seek not only your hands but your face.
To be vigilant and to perserver. To continue to love in many ways.
Let me remember that to have Faith, Hope and Love. Above all of these is
to simply just Love."
"Love is seeing the miracles that is invisible to others."-Francois Mauriac