Thinking about.. .

Love, life and other little but big mysteries. Love, a word that falls so easily from our lips and yet the reality of what it means can be mind boggling! Love is everything. It is why I am awake at 5:13 in the morning and why I have to work this body to a sweat in a few hours as well. Love is why I will keep quiet about an issue and yet confront on another one. Love means that even though I don't understand the circumstances I choose to believe what love has shown me of you . 


Love is both the butterflies when you hear that voice and the tears that fall from your eyes when the voice betrays and you must stick to the commitment that you have made. Love is not always a perfect looking picture, I don't know how one would Photoshop Jesus suffering on the cross in a way that would make it look like he was having a nice day!


Love is the heartbeat of life. We were created through it, we were created for it. To love within, vertically and horizontally. Different beats, the same heart. The commitment of it which can also mean letting it go. For until the prodigal realises that the love he is searching for has been at home all along no words can convince him to stay. Love does not prevent the fire from burning but gives grace for an open door, to bandage hands at the inevitable return, for salve and bandages.


Love is doing the right thing you know to do. Love is life. Love, life and other little but big mysteries.


Still pondering on it.

Songs that inspire, Life is not hard

Thanks all for the condolence messages. My uncle has been buried and we are moving on by the grace of God. It's still unreal at the moment. This song came up on my iPod this afternoon. I didn't understand all the words and found the video with subtitles in English. I've also put the lyrics in English. I know the title may sound funny to someone who is going through something that feels like you're between a rock and a hard place but life is not hard when we put our hope and trust in the One who knows all and sees all. I'm learning now what it really means to put your hope in the Lord.

Daddy, give us the grace not to give up. To hold on to your promises for You who promised is faithful!

Remain blessed and highly favoured. Thanks Infinity for this song.



Lyrics from www.niglyrics.com

Son of man, listen to me
the aged's word if it doesn't happen at the start
often happens at the end

VERSE 1
No matter how long
the travails of our lives shall come to an end
Men's heart fail for anxiety
because they know not what tommorow holds
God has made a promise
and His promises shall never fail
Its lack of faith
that makes men lose hope
Let the seas and ocean flee
the truth abides still
the source of all things is faith

CHORUS
Life is not hard
Life is not hard for those who believe life is not hard
Life is not hard
Life is not hard for those who believe life is not hard
Life is not hard
Life is not hard for those who believe life is not hard
Life is not hard
Life is not hard for those who believe life is not hard

VERSE 2
the patient always obtain the best
when a man lacks patience
he loses his vindication
Your thoughts towards me better be good my friend
that his thoughts towards you might be of good
In my life, death has suddenly become life
the patient always obtain the best
when a man lacks patience
he loses his vindication
Your thoughts towards me better be good my friend
that his thoughts towards you might be of good
In my life, death has suddenly become life

iPray: Day 7

A prayer regarding The Sanctity of Life offered by Patrina

Dear Lord, you know each heart. Even before it’s created in the womb, you’ve already written plans for each life. We are so fearfully and wonderfully made. Forgive us Lord, when we choose to disregard your plans.

Today, Lord Jesus, I want to lift up to you every Mother that has found themselves at the crossroads – of carrying the created life of their unborn child. I offer you praise for every life that was saved. I thank you Lord, that I was one of them. Everyone reading this today was saved. Many, only by the grace of God survived. May those of us who have lived – grow into the designed plan that you have created for us before the beginning of time.

For those little blessings that did not make it full term, I thank you Lord for receiving them into your family in Heaven. May they one day be joined together – Mother & child –as you designed.

I pray a special blessing over the Mothers who have lost a child through abortion – whether by their choice or the choice of another. It’s easy sometimes to take life for granted. But when the life of an unborn child is lost, whether by abortion or miscarriage, it becomes a matter of the soul - a connection left unfulfilled. Lord, I grieve with those who have lost a child this way. Every mother who has lost bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh knows the sanctity of life. The very blood within their veins spilled out and into the tiny life of their unborn child.

You, O Lord are the creator of life. You created the design for connection between Mother and child, before the beginning of time. The fact that these unborn babies aren’t here in the earth realm doesn’t change your plan. So, today, I pray divine connection between these lost little blessings – now within your care – and the mother’s who placed them there – willingly, thoughtlessly or through no choice of their own. They’re all the same in your scope of things. The sanctity of life and their unblemished innocence- placed them there.

My humble prayer is that every mother who has stood face to face at the window between life and loss of life – will come to know the heartbeat of their lost unborn child. Reach down from Heaven, O Lord, and heal their broken connection. May they not be separated for eternity.

Thank you , Lord, for your indescribable gift of life. For your infinite mercy and grace. I praise you, Lord for receiving these little blessings into your own family, that they might enjoy eternity with you. May we not forget how precious we are to you. How valuable life is in your hands – for we were created to love and be loved by God. Help us, O Lord, to see life from your perspective. We need so desperately to see. Open our eyes and our hearts. Surprise us with glimpses from Heaven. May we see in the spirit realm – the multitudes of tiny footprints that are now at home in the family of God. We give you Glory, Lord.

In the precious Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.


Patrina
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