hope

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

One of the saddest things about love is when you have to die for it.  Why does anyone have to die for love?  That defeats the purpose of love.  We all need to start living for love and not allowing anyone or anything to make us quit, slow us down or stop us!  We need to make sure that no one has to die for love again.  Too many soldiers and men of peace have died since Jesus gave his life as a sacrifice over 2000 years ago.  Too many lives are ended by those who have no hope or peace in their hearts.  Those who don’t know what love is.  Jesus gave us the knowledge that we truly can do anything if we have enough faith.  He told us that if we really love him, we will keep his commandment of loving one another.  If it wasn’t hard to do, it wouldn’t have to be a commandment, but it can be done.

loveblogGREATERLOVEFLAG loveblogGREATERLOVE2

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

More than anything, I am thankful for the birth of the Christ.

I am thankful and grateful for his great sacrifice and words of truth that have led millions to salvation and grace.  I am thankful to God who showed His love by the sacrifice of His Son in the great hopes that people would listen and follow the commandment to love one another, the only hope for our world.  Jesus was humble and lived a simple life.  He lived to teach and help others, and taught us that a life spent in accumulating wealth and possessions was not just foolish, but wrong.  He taught us to spend our lives in the service of others.  He taught that true love is not a warm fuzzy feeling, but an act of great sacrifice, which explains why most marriages never work.  He taught us to love and pray for our enemies, which does not mean to go give them a big hug, but to stop vengeful acts that bring you down to their level or below.  He told us to forgive those that don’t deserve it and this does not mean you allow someone to do wrong, but if they truly repent, you allow them back into your life or society without reproach.

I am thankful that when I feel alone or unloved Jesus told me to remember that when the world hated you that it hated him first.  The knowledge that I am indeed in good company, comforts me greatly.  Thank you God, in the name of Jesus, for another day.

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: BIG

Jesus has been the biggest hope and salvation this world has ever seen.  When it comes to the biggest difference to humanity, there is nothing that can challenge The Golden Rule and the stark simplicity and truth of concept.  When I think of big, I think of the big sacrifice one man of God made to save the world from themselves with the simple commandment of “Love One Another.”