Fall in love with her if that’s what your persuaded to do. but don’t dare change her. Her reckless beauty and her rolling stone heart aren’t yours to be captured. She loves another. She is moved by a force. She was spared death, and purchased anew. You can’t chain her. You can’t dare defeat her. Her spirit is unbroken. She sees the hurting, she will rescue the oppressed.

Fall in love with her if that’s what you think you should do. But don’t dare change her. Don’t corral her passion. Don’t hush her. Don’t tame her wild eyes and longing heart.

She doesn’t want you if you run behind. She only wants you if you run beside her and challenge her to run faster, harder, and forward. She wants you only if you can catch her when she falls, not trip her with your own agenda. She wants you only if you first wanted HIM. She doesn’t want a man who is not intimate with God.
This is what she calls love. A man who is broken at the altar. A man who admits he does not know it all. A man who cries out to God constantly to improve himself and to help others. A man who is a sinner and beats his chest. She wants a contrite and broken miserable mess whose only desire is to serve God.

Yes, she’ll let you see her beauty. Yes, she’ll let you in her heart. Yes, she will give you the love of her body and kiss of her mouth. But she is walled. She is veiled.

Her courage and her passion are God given. View her as a threat-unless the veil comes down, the wall comes down. And then only you will know her garden, only you will know her soft touch.

Fall in love with her if that’s what you have prayed about. But don’t dare change her. She is her father’s daughter. A gem and his pride. He delights in her. She needs a lover who will protect her and run with her. Not one to restrict her. Not one who binds her. Not one who uses her.

She will accept love and discipline, grace and encouragement, teaching and protection- but only from the one who has surrendered himself to God.

There is no such thing as conditional love. Love is either unconditional or it’s no love. You might like someone conditional on their personality or behavior or circumstances. But love accepts no boundaries. So never say ‘I love you because’, for love has no cause, love comes from God.

I got this this morning on an application from facebook :)

Desperately, hopelessly, longingly, I cried:
Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.
I plead and I wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said,
“Child, you must wait.”

“Wait? You say, wait!” my indignant reply.
“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
Is Your hand shortened? Or have You not heart?
By faith, I have asked, and am claiming your Word.”

My future and all to which I can relate
Hangs in the balance, and YOU tell me to WAIT?
I’m needing a “Yes”, a go-head sign,
Or even a “No” to which I can resign.

And Lord, You promised that if we believe
We need but to ask, and we shall receive.
And Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry:
“I’m weary of asking! I need a reply!”

Then quietly, softly, I learned of m fate
As my Master replied one again, “You must wait.”
So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taught
And grumbled to God, “So, I’m waiting…for what?”

He seemed, then, to kneel
And His eyes wept with mine,
And He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.

All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be,
You would have what you wanted~
But, you wouldn’t know Me.
You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint;
You’d not know the power I give to the faint;

You’d not learn to see through the clouds of despair;
You’d no learn to trust just by knowing I’m there;
You’d not know the joy of resting in Me;
When darkness and silence were all you could see.

You’d never experience that fullness of love
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;
You’d know that I give and I save, for a start,
But you’d not know the depth of the beat of my heart.

The glow of My comfort late into the night,
The faith that I give when you walk without sight,
The depth that’s beyond getting just what you asked
Of an infinite God, who makes what you have last.

You’d never know, should your pain quickly flee,
What it means that, “My grace is sufficient for thee.”
Yes, your dreams for your loved one
Overnight would come true,

But Oh, the Loss! If I lost what I’m doing in you!

So, be silent, My child, and in time you will see
That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.
And though oft’ may M answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still, “Wait.”

What is Love?

Today has been a FANTASTIC day, and it’s not even 4 pm! I can’t say really point out anything in particular, just the fact that it’s been beautiful out! I really super love this weather, it’s my favorite–after a week or two of cold, cold weather, when it gets in the 50s. And this is not diffferent! There has not been a day in the last two weeks where there hasn’t been snow on the ground! Most of it is all melted, but the spots where there is snow makes me smile :) I decided that this is the kind of day that is the most romantic. I can’t really explain it, but every time there is this kind of weather, I think of love. Maybe it’s because it reminds me of how there in my life, there is a lot of cloudiness and rain–crappy weather in general. But then God does something that blows my mind, like opening up the skies and showing me some sunshine. And even though it might be temporary, for a while I can just glorify Him and not think of all the worries I have. Who knew that on January 18, it would be so pleasant out!

(PS–When the Lord gives me a man, I want him to propose to me on a day like today. Jus Sayin :) I wouldn’t want anything fancy, just to dance around in the sun, crunch a few leaves, and then vow my life to someone. bahaha! I’m cheesy).

BTW, today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Here are some quotes:

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.


History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

My top three heroes: Jesus, MLK, and Alberto Pujols. :)

♥Heather