Quote of the Day 12/20/13

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 

time flies

I can hardly believe that I am half way done with summer break. I just got home but already the thoughts of returning to San Diego have been crossing my mind on a daily basis. I am working full time so the days have flown by so quickly. In between the realities of work and life, I have had time to clear my head. As much as I love my school and what I am learning, sometimes all the deadlines and homework and exams cloud my mind and I don't really get the ability to think about other things.

I guess one thing that has been on my mind more then ever is that I am a place in my life where I feel like I am being called to let a significant other become part of my life. In a way, it makes me laugh and at the same time scares me. Letting someone in has never been easy for me or for most people to say the least. We have all had our share of heartbreaks and heartaches and sometimes after it all we lose our hope for humanity. The other part of this is that it is kinda out of my hands. I may want it sooner, but it may come later. Whoever said patience is a virtue was definitely right. Waiting is hard, especially when you are tired of waiting or simply do not want to wait but maybe the person who said patience is a virtue, also said that good things come to those who wait :)

When God Writes Your Love Story

I have been transformed by this book I have been reading: "When God Writes Your Love Story" by a couple named Eric and Leslie Ludy. The book gives an honest account of what the world perceives as love and what love should actually be. They remind both men and women alike that God wants more then anything, to write your love story and that everything is truly in his hands. The problem is that society doesn't want to wait, we want now and when we quickly become anxious. Society tells us its okay to just "go for it" and if it makes you happy then "try it out." But all these actions have dangerous consequences which we may only realize when it is too late. I have been praying to seek our God's will, for him to remove my anxiousness, my need to know things ahead of time and to just find peace in where I am at life. I am at an amazing school, surrounded by amazing friends who love me and want only the best. I may not have a boyfriend or a fiancee or husband to share my life with but I do know that my man is walking around, somewhere on this world and that one day God will cause our paths to meet and write one phenomenal love story.


Here is one more excerpt from the book: 
"Women can all too often become manipulative, flirtatious and self focused when relating to men. They can play games with a man's heart. They use their priceless pearl of purity for temporary pleasure. While it may be hard for godly women to believe that a Christlike knight exists, it's often equally difficult for a man of integrity to trust God for a princess of purity. To experience a God-written love story, our standards cannot be determined by our culture. Our standards should be radically higher than the rest of the world. Not that we are going to be perfect or have a perfect relationship, but we should be aiming our arrow at the right target- applying the very nature and character of Jesus Christ in our attitude toward the opposite sex. Many Christians simply don't feel this is a possibility. Their standards sink dangerously low. God's heart must break when He knows the beautiful things He had planned that we often miss because of our foolishness."

No You Can't Hurry Love

     The Supremes left me with a little piece of wisdom:

You can't hurry love/No, you just have to wait

You got to trust, give it time/No matter how long it takes

     Our society most definitely does not like the word "wait." We do not like to wait for anyone or anything. We constantly need faster phones, faster service and faster cars (although fast cars are simply a necessity in my opinion). But what about love? Do we hurry that too? Just look at all the magazine covers around you and all thats seen is "Make him fall in love with you by tomorrow" or "5 easy steps to get a man by summer." 

     I like to get things fast. I like fast shipping, instant coffee and I like instant play on Netflix but somehow I don't think that love should just be rushed. Do I want to fall in love? Of course I do, most people want to fall in love. We were created to want relationships and to want love but finding love isn't easy and meeting the right person to fall in love with is even harder.

     What is the most precious thing you own? Your MacBook? Your car? Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue? Have you ever considered... your heart? I challenge you with this idea; your heart is the most precious thing you have. So how many times have you given out your heart? or even just a piece of your heart to someone else? Well be honest and now count how many of those people deserved it? Countless emotions and feelings poured out, which if we're still being honest here most likely result in heartbreak and heartache. 

     The problem is that once we do it once or twice, we continue to do it more and more. We keep opening up and the more we do, the more we hurt and the more we need someone else to attempt to fill in that void. Its a vicious cycle that repeats over and over and over again and thus we begin to settle, lower our standards and just hope for some temporary satisfaction.

     I present a second challenge: guard your heart. Only one person out there deserves it, just one. Frankly it will take lots of waiting for most of us, but you cant hurry love, and you just have to wait. That one person wants your whole heart, so why let unworthy others recklessly chip away at it. The more you break something, the more fragile it is so therefore theres only so much a heart can take before it breaks. Can a heart be put back together? Yes, but a broken heart with millions of pieces will take a long time to heal and it will never be the same again.  

     Each of us has been granted by the Creator "somebody to love" and that person will love us equally back. That person wants us, all of us, the good and the bad, through sickness and in health so forget about rushing and hurrying and trying to catch a man (or a woman for any men reading this) in "5 easy steps" because he or she is out there and they deserve your heart, all of it and it probably won't be easy, but it will be well worth the wait.