Saturday, February 19, 2011

Take the time and be love.

Each day this week I have thought "Hey, I should blog today." And each day I end up reading other blogs and saying, "eh, I'll write tomorrow." But now its SATURDAY and I don't know what to say. Are your ready for a mumble-jumble-mess? :) If so, thank you.

1. I have been reading in Nouwen's book (keeping on top of it this time ;)) and I have been challenged and its so good, especially about judging, or rather not passing judgement. I want to be accepting, I want to be understanding, I want to be love, I want to be a light. The last thing I desire is for someone to think I'm close-minded and judgmental.

2. God has helped me become more in-touch with living out my desire to have a servants heart. I'm not down at the soup kitchen :( , but I am choosing to listen to the people around me, be what God needs me to be for them, and to serve in small ways: doing dishes for my roommates, writing encouraging notes, tuning into the lives of the people I work with, and doing the little things. Aiming to put them above myself. I want to become more and more intentional in it all.

3. I am coming back to a heart of love. I love love so much. God is love and love is real. It is what makes the world go round and it changes everything. I think a lot of people do not accept the love that is given to them (I am sometimes guilty of this as well), but some do not know how to accept it, some don't understand it, and some just don't think about it. BUT it is what everyone needs. There is a song that my roommate my first year at APU and I talked about all the time, one of the lines is "If you need love, take the time and be love."Sooooo good. I am striving to be love. I used to be very intentional in this, but I lost sight within the last.... 6 months or so.... I am trying to figure out the cause so that it doesn't happen again, but I am ecstatic about the Lord bringing me back to this place of giving love in abundance to the people around me because He is so persistent in re-filling me.

17 comments:

  1. Thanks for writting this. Its so encouraging to see what God is teaching you and how you allowing HIm to transform your life!

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  2. A, B, C! Easyyyy as 1! 2! 3! (love that song) :)

    such a good post ms. paget. i am going through a similar thing with the serving part! and i looove what you wrote about love :) like, when i need love, i should just BE love because God IS love and God is IN me and so that means Love is IN me. no need to look anywhere else.

    have a great day :)

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  3. The Love of God.

    http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/The_Love_of_God/

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  4. it was so great chatting with you on saturday. i'm praying that you love those around you out of the overflow of the love you yourself receive from Jesus. :)

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  5. I learned about what you are writing a few years ago and it was such a WOW moment... being love and living it and giving it. I remember the WOW and I remember be so excited for it, just as you are now. Thanks so much for sharing. Tis truth.

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  6. i really liked your number two, corinne. although you're not down at the soup kitchen like you said, you're learning what it looks like to sacrifice, serve, and encourage where you're at. and if we're honest, it's a whole lot harder to do that as a part of our daily lives than it is to get out of them and sacrifice in a different environment.

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  7. Corinne, I think your servant's heart demonstrates your love. I think that is a very beautiful desire in your heart and it is obvious that you are filled with God's love. I also believe your want to be accepting is another way that you are living in love. Continue to be love!

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  8. That's awesome Corinne. Just tuning into people lives now is a difficult task since we always want to find a way to accomplish our goals faster whether by technology or throwing money at it.

    I'm definitely on the same page you are. With my new job in retail, it's really putting me out of my comfort zone and really teaching me to genuinely love others, especially complete strangers which I personally struggle with. (I'm the type that likes to build a close relationship with 1 person at a time, and get really uncomfortable when I'm surround by a group of people and make light conversation). And it's especially hard in retail when people are trying to take advantage of me and don't treat me with respect but at the same time, I can see God using this job to really show me what love is and how God continues to love me even though there are plenty of times I outright disrespect Him with my sinful actions...

    I'm right there with you =)

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  9. So great. I also am a lover of love haha but it's Perfect Love that compels us to be able to love others. I believe we are incapable of truly loving others the way we wish, and also to be loved that way in return, unless we are able to receive and embrace the Love that the Father wants to lavish onto us.

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  10. Amen to that Brandon. Amen.
    You all are amazing. And thank you for the lyrics David :)

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  11. I'm with Bayley. Number 2 is really awesome. Our minds always go to the soup kitchen when we talk about serving, but let's be honest, that takes an hour. The kind of serving you're talking about is constant, it's selfless, it sometimes goes unnoticed, and it's a moment-by-moment death to selfishness.

    Last week you talked about being selfish. God is leading you in a new direction. So COOL!

    And number three, isn't it beautiful how He helps us stumble back in to intimacy with Him? I'll be going through a dry spell, I never see the light at the end of the tunnel, and all of the sudden it's the brightest sunshine I've ever seen. He gets us there whther we know where we're going or not.

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  12. "I am coming back to a heart of love. I love love so much. God is love and love is real. It is what makes the world go round and it changes everything." This is beautiful Corinne. You are beautiful. Keep letting that heart of yours shine!. LOVE YOU!!

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  13. Ya i feel this is a huge thing that we don't realize how much we are loved, and don't take the time to be loved.

    Good reminder

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  14. I love loving that you love love.

    Seriously though, I find that I can only love others well, when I fully embrace God's love for others first. My love for them is always a shadow of His love for them (and me). His love is the benchmark. It's a standard. I can't meet it, but it gives me a target to shoot for.

    Thanks for stirring great thoughts in us all.

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  15. I love the idea of what it means to BE love...never really thought about it like that before! Such a powerful reminder, and a powerful way of living :) Thank you for sharing!

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  16. I'm enjoying your words, your heart, and the flowers. Thanks!

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  17. Love is what everyone NEEDS. So true. Thanks for the reminder. Sorry for not getting to this sooner, but, for some reason, i feel like I was supposed to read this at this very moment in my life. Thank you :)

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