Love is really difficult to understand or explain. I think we all agree that love is much more than a feeling. God is love – the ultimate, final, and complete manifestation of love. Jesus said, “a new commandment I give you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
These past nine months, I have seen love manifested in a multitude of ways by my squad mates. These are just a few examples of how love has been shown.
Love is……
– bringing a Snickers to a sick friend in the hospital
photo credit: Pamela Galvin
– rubbing my back in the pitch-black hospital room in Runkungiri, Uganda as I throw-up everything the IV had just dripped into my system
– swing-dancing in the afternoon
– sitting on the beach in El Salvador for hours so that I can play soccer
– wandering through Antigua so that I can spend a few hours taking photos
– reading a book aloud in your sexy Spanish accent
photo credit: Julia Taylor
– offering a book when my Kindle is broken
– holding me as I cry on the cold floor of the kitchen
– watching a war movie with me when I'm desperate for something other than a chick-flick
– washing and combing through my ridiculously tangled hair when I can't do it myself
– willingly playing cards with me, even when you have no desire to do so
– having a conversation about a dead Venezuelan dictator and the political ramifications of his death
– going shopping for me, so I can avoid the horrors of consumerism
– chasing away the Central American dogs so I don’t have an allergic reaction
– giving me your extra food, when you know I am ravenously hungry
photo credits: Julia Taylor
– concocting and challenging me to random competitions to satiate my competitive nature
28 days and counting 🙂
