i’ve been doing an awful lot of thinking.

thoughts
coming soon to a blog near you.

love is all you need <3

i am in desperate need of some stress relief.
but stress isn’t keeping me from enjoying this beautiful life.  i love it.  wouldn’t trade it for anyone else’s.

yeah, things get hard.  yeah, i get upset.  no, i don’t cry.  yeah, i do stupid things.  yeah, i do regret a lot.  no, i don’t regret everything.

i love my life.  i love my friends.  contrary to the way i’ve been feeling lately, i do love meeting new people.  if i could form an unbreakable bond with every person i met, i’d be ecstatic.  i’d be thrilled.  if i could love everyone unconditionally, i think i’d finally be happy.

i think that’s all anyone needs.  i think that’s all the world needs.  God is love.  all you need is love.  love Him, love people.

people don’t love enough anymore.  people don’t care about other people.  no one is willing to lay down his life for his friends, much less his seat, his time, his efforts.  no one is loving anymore. 

love has such a different meaning in america than it does anywhere else.  even in different languages.  in greek, there are so many words meaning all the different kinds of love.  in english, there’s one.  love.

i love my dog.

i love pizza.

i love my mom.

i love you, darling.

these are all different meanings!  you don’t love your mom the same way you love pizza.  i hope!  you don’t love your sweetheart the same way you love your dog.  you better not!

you shouldn’t love God the same way you love any of these.  that love should be far more.  and if we’re choosing to love the way He loves us, we should love unconditionally.  uncontrollably.  we should love all.  we should love sinners, haters, blasphemers, and outcasts.  we should love those who will never love us back.  

i want to get to know people on an intensely personal level without it being awkward.  i want people to open up to me the same way i open up to people.  i’m trusting, too trusting at times.  but i think it’s because i want so badly to be trusted.

i scratch your back, you scratch mine.
i tell you my secrets, you tell me yours.

it doesn’t quite work that way.  but what does work is loving people.  and not expecting that love in return.  God loves those who don’t love Him back.  He loves those who will never love Him back.

shouldn’t we live and love in accordance with His examples?

just my thoughts for the week i guess.  i need to start loving more.