final post LOVE IS:

dear readers
I apologize for the lack of posts the last 2 weeks or so. Today is the last day of February and so this will be my last post about "LOVE IS..." so I will leave you with a few pictures to look at and ponder.



May you always know that YOU are LOVED!



and I pray you NEVER FORGET:

LOVE is:...

Well I must say that I am impressed with myself. This is the third blog this week. and once again its ALL about LOVE! I think once the semester really hits hard I won't be blogging as much...

Tonight I am reflecting on African American History and how they have played a vital role in my life. My son is black. If it weren't for his father (my ex husband) I would not appreciate black history as much as I do today. I also find it very, very important to keep educating N on his background and history.

So tonight I share a quote from the wonderful, late, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.



It is a very fine line to walk between power and love!



only one thing can drive out hate...love... humph maybe instead of hating our jobs or our laundry or our homework, or the mundaneness of life we should figure out how to put some LOVE in there?!! Lord Knows I NEED to Love more!!



AWW KITTY CATS!!



yea I just had to throw this one in here! I really do love Black People! I love hearing their stories and how each of them are unique and I love, love, love, love, love that Jesus loves us ALL, and that in heaven we're ALL family!!

~B

LOVE is:...

Love is:
Well this is my second blog for the week, and its still ALL ABOUT LOVE!

Here are lyrics to one of my most absolute favorite songs in the whole world! It is by an artist named JJ Heller and if you listen to Christian radio you have most likely heard this song several times in the last six months or so...

He cries in the corner where nobody sees
He's the kid with the story no one would believe
He prays every night, "Dear God won't you please...
Could you send someone here who will love me?"

Who will love me for me
Not for what I have done or what I will become
Who will love me for me
'Cause nobody has shown me what love
What love really means

Her office is shrinking a little each day
She's the woman whose husband has run away
She'll go to the gym after working today
Maybe if she was thinner
Then he would've stayed
And she says...

Who will love me for me?
Not for what I have done or what I will become
Who will love me for me?
'Cause nobody has shown me what love, what love really means

He's waiting to die as he sits all alone
He's a man in a cell who regrets what he's done
He utters a cry from the depths of his soul
"Oh Lord, forgive me, I want to go home"

Then he heard a voice somewhere deep inside
And it said
"I know you've murdered and I know you've lied
I have watched you suffer all of your life
And now that you'll listen, I'll tell you that I..."

I will love you for you
Not for what you have done or what you will become
I will love you for you
I will give you the love
The love that you never knew

WOW those are some powerful words. The words alone do not do it justice. Here is a link to the official music video of the song: Love Me For Me. I encourage you ALL to watch it, even if you have seen it before, and reflect in the awesome, powerful, wonderful, amazing LOVE of our God,Creator, Father/Mother, whatever you call God. God DOES Love ME! God DOES Love YOU! now wipe away the tears and get back to whatever it was you were doing before you stumbled across this blog...! for me I will get back to my homework!

Stay Tuned for more "LOVE is:" this month!!

~B

LOVE is:...

Okay so I've realized that the past few blogs of mine have been kind of downers so I've decided to pump things up a bit. For the month of February I will be posting all about LOVE! I have friends that despise valentines day, and I've been there so I feel 'em! but I've also had very nice valentines days and so I'm kinda 'eh' about the day I really couldn't care less... It's like Christmas WAY over mediatized (and Yes I think I just made up that word)...

So I will start with a quote from one of my favorite authors/theologians:

"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love." --Frederick Buechner--

now instead of thinking of this 'you' he refers to here as your significant other...think of it in the context of "love your neighbor as yourself"



woah wowzer That'll preach baby!!!!

I hope to post at least once a week, keep lookin out for some more love from this big momma!!!!

~B