One day I told God that I really wanted to write poetry.
He replied and said “okay, then do it”.
Classic God.
Here’s one of my recent pieces I wrote about my journey with what it means to love people. Hope you guys enjoy! 🙂
I used to think… I used to think it was a weakness to love deeply to actually tell people how much you care about them like putting a piece of yourself out there only to get repeatedly stepped on by people who weren’t ready to steward what you were trying to give them I used to think that loving deeply in a ‘netflix & chill’ culture would be seen as a flaw— too clingy to be cool somehow genuine love got downgraded to superficial, momentary fulfillment somehow, love now felt like a burden I didn’t want to bear so I stopped. I used to think that it would be easier: hiding my desire to love people for the sake of fitting into a world that is desperately searching for authentic love but also runs at the first hint of it it’s ironic, huh? but here’s what I’ve learned from what I used to think: love seems scary because once you admit you love someone life is no longer just about you; it means you lose a little bit of the control that everyone seems to hold so tightly to love forces you to be selfless to care about someone else more than you care about yourself love means you give people freedom to choose even if that means they don’t choose you in return I’ve learned that loving people deeply, genuinely loving people is perhaps the scariest, most rewarding thing this life has to offer because in the end all people really want is to know that they are loved not in spite of their flaws but because of them not in spite of their dark past or seemingly unconquerable present but because they are becoming a vital piece of the redemption story God is unmistakably weaving we were designed to be loved we were designed to love we love deeply because He always has and always will deeply love us
