Sunday, February 10, 2008

So I've been absoultely horrible at being inspirational lately. Guess I'm not feeling very inspirational between the horrible weather, being sick all the time, and being insanely busy.
To make up for some lost time... here's some inspiration. With Valentines Day coming up, I found this and I think it's really great. Makes you think :)

Do you love someone because you were kissed by them? It's not love, it's inferiority complex. Are your palms sweaty, is your heart racing and is your voice caught within your chest? It isn't love, it's like.You can't keep your eyes off of them, am I right? It isn't love, it's lust. Do you love someone because you can't live without their touch? It's not love, it's lust.Are you proud and eager to show them off? It isn't love, it's luck. Do you want them because you know they're there? It isn't love, it's loneliness. Do you stay for their confessions of love, because you don't want to hurt them?It isn't love, it's pity. Do you belong to them because their sight makes your heart skip a beat?It isn't love, it's infatuation. Do you think he or she is really gorgeous?It's not love, it's infatuation. Do you pardon their faults because you care about them? It isn't love, it's friendship. Do you share everything with them?It's not love, it's friendship. Do you tell them that they are the only one you think of? It's not love, it's a lie. Are you willing to give all of your favourite things for their sake? It isn't love, it's charity. Would you sacrifice your own life for them?It's not love, it's heroism. If you love someone because you think that you shouldn't leave him because others think that you shouldn't ...It's not love, it's compromise. Do you know you love them because you simply cannot live without them? It's not love, it's dependency. Does your heart ache and break, do you cry for their pain, even when they're strong?Then it's love. Do their eyes see your true heart, and touch your soul so deeply it hurts? Then it's love. Do you accept their faults because they're a part of who they are? Then it's love. Are you attracted to others, but stay with them faithfully without regret? Then it's love.Would you allow them to leave you, not because they want to but because they have to? Then it's love.Could you live without them, content with knowing that they are happy? Then it is truly love.



And a Bible passage that I really enjoyed reading this past week...

1 Peter 1:13 - 25
"Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: 'Be holy, becuase I am holy.'
Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you form your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For 'All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the LORD is good."

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