On my final Sunday at El Shaddai Orphanage in Swaziland, the founder of the orphanage asked a few of us to share with the church what we’d learned and/or experienced during our stay with them that month. It was easy for me to express on the spot that the LOVE given by the children was incredible and an experience that I will never forget. After thinking on that question a little bit more, The Lord began showing me exactly what love is and why it touched me so much. Here is my tribute to the beautiful, little people at El Shaddai.
LOVE IS ….
What is love?
It’s more than a word. More than a feeling. More than a face.
Actually, Love isn’t a face at all.
Love is face-less … color-less … gender-less.
Love doesn’t care what you look like or where you’ve come from.
It just wants to see – to see YOU.
To hold you. To hug and kiss you.
Love wants to draw you pictures, and
Write you love notes, and
Sing you a song.
Love wants to watch movies, talk, laugh, and take goofy pictures.
Love wants to ask you questions – MANY QUESTIONS! (lol)
And love wants answers.
Love is long walks and quick glances.
Love is a smile.
Love just wants to be around, be present.
Even if that means sitting quietly on a rock while gazing into the beauty of creation;
created by LOVE Himself.
Love doesn’t see the way we see, nor
does it care about things and gifts.
Love is time and love wants time.
It wants the time I claim not to have.
It wants to occupy my thoughts.
It wants to wake me up and rock me to sleep.
Love waits for me. Love wants me.
And I. Want. Love.
Because Love isn’t Love unless it is shared with someone else.
