God is...

(The sky last October)

I just don't have words. I'm amazed and feel as if new life is being poured into me. It's easy to forget that God really does have everything under control. It's the difference between knowing God will take care of me and knowing God is taking care of me and will continue to take care of me.

The Love Project Taking It To Work: Unbelievable

Night was probably the best night I've had at work to date! Having this new attitude and mindset is at least changing me. Like I mentioned in the previous post, there are two people in particular that I normally don't enjoy being around. They're not bad people, just very different than me and it's just a challenge to work with them. Tonight I was working alongside one of the two nearly the whole time. Did I mention that tonight was one of the best nights at work yet?

The Love Project Taking It To Work

"The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you love someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less." -C.S. Lewis

I have to admit I'm not too excited about this... There are two people in particular that are a challenge to be around. Both of whom are supposed to be at work tonight. However, as much as it's easy to love people who already love us, it is important, perhaps far more important to show love and to honestly love the people that don't love us. Didn't Jesus say to love our enemies and to love those who hate us? These two may not hate me or be my enemy, but we're not friends either. There is tension between us and it's far more stressful to work with them then anyone else.

The Love Project Already Making A Difference

"If I don't love people then who will? And if I don't love them, how will they know that Christ loves them?" -C.R.J.

Yesterday I said I was going to try a new experiment and I wasn't expecting to see it make a difference already. This is the story of my best friend.

The Love Project

 "I don't know that the Lord ever spoke of success. He spoke only of faithfulness in love. This is the only success that really counts." -Mother Teresa

I have never been so inspired as I am right now. I'm going to start learning how to love better and I know that sounds funny. Just stick with me here! You may or may not be familiar with the book, The Five Languages of Love by Gary Chapman, I ordered the version for singles sometime ago and it just arrived. (If you haven't figured out I've been gobbling down books lately!) Being eager to learn something new and better yet, to express my love for others more clearly, the book was read from cover-to-cover tonight.