Help Me to Love

Love God and love people. That's it. Jesus told us that everything else is covered if we do those 2 things. One of the things that I think about a lot is that God IS love. He can't help it. He sounds like love, He looks like love and He acts like love. He can't help it, because that is who He is.

I want to look, talk and act like love. That truly is the desire of my heart and sometimes that is hard for me. I will just admit to you right now that there are some people at the PARC that I don't like very much. I love them, but I don't like them sometimes. It's true and I don't like admitting that. There are a few that get on my nerves and frustrate me. I need to fix that. I WANT to fix that. This morning as I was praying about it I asked God to help me to love better. The only way I can do that is if He does it for me and through me.

"Out of the mouth the heart flows." That means I have to start with my heart. I've been reading about God's love lately, and how hard it is for us to comprehend how much God loves us. He can't help it. He IS love. I am coming to understand that I need to receive that love. I need to let Him love me and believe that I truly am loved as I am. As I receive God's love for me, it allows me to give Him permission to turn and change my heart to love others better. I can't do it. Only God can do it, and He will if I ask.

So, I am asking. I actually started praying this prayer many years ago. I can see how he has changed me over the years but I still have a long way to go. I want to love better, bigger and more. It doesn't happen in an instant. It is a changing, molding and sometimes hurtful process of allowing God to do in me what I can't do; allowing God to do in me what needs to be done so that I can look, act and sound like love.

There are not many places that we go where we can have the opportunity to get to know and have relationship with a wide variety of people that are different than we are and often so very hard to love. God gave me the PARC. It is indeed a blessing. It is my classroom and my opportunity to let God change me to love better and bigger. I'm on a journey. Ready, set, go!