L is for the way you look at me
O is you’re the only one I see
V is very very EXTRAordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore…
I always enjoy a song or two from Sinatra whose cocktail hour tunes make its conception lighthearted and a bit dispensable. At times I wish love were merely just ‘under my skin’ and for it, rather than for my soul. Love we experience from a father, friend, significant other or the lack thereof shapes our notion of what it means in our minds. Even more so, these experiences impart a sense of value or devalue. For some reason everyone talks about it as if we were created to experience it, but somehow we buy into the version of love painted by our father, friend or significant other. For the girls and guys walking the hardknock streets of U.S. cities to the women and ladyboys of the red light district of Bangkok, Thailand, the matters of the heart remain the same — they’re looking for love to abide in.
But what implications exist when we buy into our value based on the love of someone who doesn’t know love Himself, the Almighty God?
I’ve been ministering to women of the night in Bangkok whose ‘job’ is to entertain the men or women who come, in whatever way that the latter are willing to pay for. Some are freelancers on the streets, some work at the go-go bars, some in the dance bars and some to attract people to the bar.
How do the freelancing women who prostitute on the streets of the Bangkok (or any of those women/ladyboys) perceive love, and how do they perceive a God who loves? What would it take for them to understand that He exists and extends love to all?
Can they understand? How do they understand? 
These are the questions I began asking myself as I entered this type of ministry to be an ambassador of reconciliation in God. I thought, ‘these women and men haven’t known the love of a father, friend or significant other’; especially not from the men that keep their night work in demand. It was daunting looking at the various situations through my own eyes. Then the Lord spoke to me saying, “Did anyone know how to love you completely outside of Me? Was your conception of love that much different than hers until I came over you with My love and showed you with my children?” Daunting? Nothing is daunting for God! And who am I to say that I was much different than she who sells her body? After all, I sold my thoughts, my feelings, my ideas of love and worth…
But then He comes saying,
L is for the way I look at you
O is I’m the only one you need
R is really really out of your box
D is even more than anyone you adore because it is done
We want to be adored and return that adoration
because we have INDEED been called by a Creator who is love Himself.
because we have INDEED been called by a Creator who is love Himself.
A Thai girl we talked to and prayed for is getting this. That’s what I’ll be talking about in the continuation of part 1, in part 2.
