To live is a grand thing.

To live is a grand thing. Something splendid. And many think that living means adventure. Many think living has to reach a specific standard that is unspoken among society.

Many thinking living is giving themselves away. Giving themselves away to one and all, so they do.

Living is simply being present in each moment and giving everything into every little thing so that you can say you gave it your all. Whether that be caring for little ones or climbing mountains. If your heart and soul are in it, who is to say that it is not living? 

We think in order to live life we must accomplish something grand. Well living in itself is grand. A beautiful gift. An accomplishment. Whose standards are you living by, yours or the world's?

Many believe that in order to live you must feel that you are living.

You will not always feel. Emotions are a blessing. Hold on dearly to them and recognize that you are experiencing something new but if no emotion comes to you, that does not make you invisible. Feelings come and go. They are unstable. Life is more than emotion.

So live, to your greatest potential. For it is a grand thing, to live.

The power of past tenses

I have loved you says the Lord|| Mal 1:2

He used past  tense-have loved- indicating he already did.  It was an action already performed. What does this mean? Should't he love us? In present form? Yes, yes he should and he does. His love is beyond past, present and future tense. It is never ending. What he means is that despite and during all our times when we were in darkness, all the times we betrayed him, offended him, hurt him; he loved us still. Through all the chaos we put ourselves through believing God was never there, in

reality we were pushing Him away- his love never ceased. Behind the have loved are all the times we chose sin instead of God. This is his power and love. So the Lord is a fighter.

 Imagine a battle scene and at the end of the battle, the bad guys have been defeated. Christ, our fighter, all wounded, bleeding, comes toward us,embraces us and says "I have loved you" -though you were the one that set the army before Him to fight he has at last reached you and you have let Him in. Stop fighting. Stop revisiting your past. He has loved you. 

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A breather.

There's more to life than feelings. There is more to life than break ups, and boys and this thing we call love. There is life beyond what you believe there to be.

Stop and look. Stop and breathe. Stop and observe.

Life is among us.

The breeze in the trees let's us know we are alive. The rays of the sun shine down upon our face and give us new life.

 Enjoy what is around you, and live.