As we listened to the song together I was overwhelmed with gratitude and amazement... I actually get to walk out this journey that we call life with this incredible woman?! Thank You Jesus!
Over 11 years ago we started dating... and as life often does, ups and downs attempt to throw us off course. But I firmly believe... if we will stay focused on Jesus, continue to grow in our faith and love God, each other and others well... we will continue to experience the abundant life that John 10:10 speaks of!
I am so excited to see what this journey holds!
...as we follow Jesus... love each other... love others... plant daybreak church...
I wrote this to tell Jesus thank You... for giving us life and blessing us in so many ways!
I wrote this to tell Amber that I love You so much... steady as we go love!
I wrote this to tell everyone that has prayed and supported us... thank you!
1 Corinthians 13 (MSG)
13 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2 If
I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making
everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain,
“Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10 Love
never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues
will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of
the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the
Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When
I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any
infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
steady as we go...
