When All You Can Do Is Love 8/19/2015

Good Morning,

May your day have some sunshine and peace and your cup filled with blessings. I am blessed today to have a big cup of Door County Cherry Crème Coffee sitting right next to me.

I received a call yesterday from one of my loved ones who was in a bad way. I am not mentioning names to keep some privacy in place. My loved one had just lost a family member to death. Everything that could go wrong at the moment did. Cell phone reception decided to quit. Once it came back three other people were calling me. All I wanted to do was to reach out and hug the hurt away. But then a distance of over one thousand miles would not allow that. I could tell that my dear one hurt beyond what I thought she could bear. We prayed and closed the conversation.

I am a "fixer". If something is broke I am a get it done type guy. This needed fixing and I could not help. This frustrated me. My loved one hurt and I did not have the answers. I called again last night and decided the best thing to do was to just listen and love.  It dawned on me that except for a few things I might be able to do and help with later this week, the best thing to do is to love and be there any way I can.

When in doubt, love. Not in the noun sense of the word but as a verb! You will find that in order for there to be a noun you must put forth love as a verb in action.

1 Corinthians 13:8-13New King James Version (NKJV)
⁸ Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

God bless,
Marty