"Love can be, such a non-word... sometimes, it loses its meaning, its potency, like, I really love cheeseburger... like, I really love, a sunny day, like, I really love my family... and all of those are different things. The love that I am singin about in this song is not a pretty, clean, Hollywood Hot pink sorta love. Its the kind of love that is willing to love things that are messy, and even the difficult, and, sorta, kinda gross, kinda things... " -John Mark McMillan (commenting on the meaning behind the song "How He Loves")
That's just it. Love can be used casually, love can be used intensely, love can be unrequited and Love can change the face of the world. Such a word, such an action has so much meaning that even God himself has taken the word to say that HE is it. I strongly feel that, through all of loves meaning, through all of life's defining love, that the sacrifice of a man, for all of his people, for His beloved, is the most brutal and real essence of Love their will ever be. Love is not just Roses or Easter Lillie's for that matter, but love is also answering a friends phone call at 1am, stopping to make sure that car that went off the road is ok, or meeting a friend for coffee even though they have blown you off the last seven times. Love is staring somebody in the eye and saying, "I forgive you". Love is leaving your heart on your sleeve, not looking for a response, or a reward, but because that's all you've got, and you would rather have the courage to put that forward than stifle your truest self into the skin and bones of your being. Love is not always pretty. It is hardly perfect. It may be messy and even gross, but Love, in all its forms, is the choice, is the action that we have to be willing to take, because maybe, just maybe, we experience a little bit of God's own heart when do. Maybe it is in the "pouring out" of oneself, in blood, sweat and tears, that we find what we so desperately seek.
Happy Easter
"We are only asked to love, to offer hope to the many hopeless. We don't get to choose all the endings, but we are asked to play the rescuers. We won't solve all mysteries and our hearts will certainly break in such a vulnerable life, but it is the best way. We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we're called home." -ToWriteLoveOnHerArms
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JMM- "How he Loves: a story"
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Great post, Brandon. I feel like you could be talking about me in a couple of places however, and they are always the most complimentary of places. Blessings and Happy Easter!!!
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