Show love?

"But I cannot count on all the signs

You’ve passed away as mere coincidence

And im running out of ways to break through

Like a lonely lover, Waiting by the ocean

Ill never give up on you"

-Madly in love with you

by Sean McConnell

You know how when something keeps up in your life.. you notice.. and realize there may be a reason for it.

A motif in your life if you will.

Well my recent motif..

has been

LOVE.

Love hmmm...

that may seem simple.

love.

love.

love.

love.

The word is overused and SO common in our lives.

I tell alot of people I love them in a day.

I say I love alot of different foods.

we love our friends.

we love our family.

what about our enemies?

Do we love them.

Why is it so hard to LOVE the kid who sits by himself at lunch and seeems socially awkward.

I always say I love people.

But am I really loving the people that NEED to be loved.

NO.

Im loving the people that love me.

Its not enough..

Its not all that God is asking us to do.

"You have heard the law says, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But i say love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you. In that way you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives His sunlight to both the evil and the good"

-Jesus (Matt 5:43-45)

Does it seem fair that those of us who experience love and joy are hoarding it for ourselves?

its not.

Im happy. Life is going really good right now.

good.

But what am I doing to show others love to let others know they matter?

You say hi to your friends in the hall.. what about the kid with the greasy hair who only frowns and stares at the floor....

God loves them.

....

So I should too.

I realized that when things get really good in my life I begin to become complacent with everything and not worry about other people as much.

The phrase God KEEEEEPS on playing over in my head is

SHOW LOVE.

Show love.

hmmm..

simple enough right?

Its kinda ridiculous that the greatest commandment is actually the hardest.

To love people is to be selflesss.

Its hard to go out of your way to do something for someone..

especially when its someone your maybe not very fond of.

I can be pretty selfish..

I wanna do what I wanna do on a friday night.

Maybe God has.. other plans.. maybe I neeed to open up my ears and listen.

When have you followed God and not been satisfied...

Even when I dont want to do something he is asking me and I roll my eyes and do it anyway... im always glad I did.

His plan is ALWAYs better.

no doubt.

I ask God for peace.

WELL SHOW MY PEOPLE LOVE

he responds.

 in verse 46 same chapter it says "If you are kind to only your friends how are you different from anyone else?"

Dont you wanna live a life that means more?

I want to live a BEAUTIFUL life.

I long to show love to everyone around me..

WHERE IS THE LOVE? :)

refer back to the black eyed peas song.

and trevor hall has a Where is the love song I also highly recommend.

The  lyrics at the beginning of my blog are Gods words to us.

He will never give up on us.

So giving up a friday night to help the homeless...

God is there.

God is with you.

wherever you go.

If he is with you why not take him to places he is needed the most.

Talk to the people that are missing that light in their life.

I feel like I am always preaching this..

LOVE PEOPLE
LOVE PEOPLE
LOVE PEOPLE

and I myself am stil struggling with it.

I wish I could accept everyone the way they are.. like exactly the way the are. see them the way God sees them.

He sees them as beautiful.

They are beautiful.

why are we so judgemental?

why does are opinion even matter...

it doesnt.

So give up talking bad and start giving words of love and joy.

Not just to your friends that already like you but to maybe the girl your afraid of or the shy kid.

Uhm

If we all just stoppped.

And starting loving everyone the way God loves them.

Imagine that world.

imagine.

Now I feeel like Im preaching world peace.

But seriously YOUR world will be overflowing with love and joy and peace when you start

SHOWING LOVE to others.

No doubt.

Ive heard it said that therapist tell depressed people to do something nice for someone else.

I believe in that fully.

So this is my challenge for myself... to love others selflessly

to show love to people that maybe I would never imagine talking too.

and to Let God do what he will with that :)

He will surprise me.

He always does.

He never gives up on me.

I have so  much peace in Him.

I have no reason to fear.

I will not be afraid

to

SHOW LOVE.

Beautiful honesty.

"You will soon find contentment"

said my fortune cookie today.

Well if soon was supposed to be tonight that did NOT happen.

Ever beeen in a room with people you love more than life and yet you feeeel more alone than ever?

There is something about everyone trying to get love that leaves me feeeeling lonely and i dont like it.

Why cant we all just give love away even if we are not receiving it.

Hearing myself think these thoughts seems so stupid because so many people genuinely told me they loved me tonight.

Yet i cant accept it.

I cant feeel it.

Right now my insides feeel empty

and i realize

no human love will fill that up

despite how desperately i look

and trust me i have beeeen looking way to desperately.

I love people.

I dont believe there is anything wrong with that.

As I determined this weeeek hah which i already knew is i love people more than i love school.

I need to care about school though.

yah i graduate in freaking four months but schooool still neeeds to be goood and i neeed to get good grades and all that jazz.

Maybe this feeeling in me right now and the reason that my ankle hurts is punishment.

Am I allowed to think that?

My one wrong decision and now I am PAYING for it.

Paying for it alot.

I have never been able to relate to depressed people to well.

My life is an overflow of joy.

but obviously I have my moments.

and I feeel like this is what depressed people feeel like but all the time.

like your empty inside and no matter how hard you try it doesnt change so you become weak and give up.

WELL.

My name is Amber Marie Buchanan

and I refuse to accept the fact that I feeel lonely.

Cuz the truth is I am not alone.

I am never alone.

I am SOOOO very aware that God is there.

Right now, always

even when I made a crappy decision.

I generally dont consider myself a regretful person.

But I do feel dumb that God was there and he was not pleased.

Why is it SOOO hard to please God?

Some people dont even get to the point of realizing its totally worth it.

Fact. Its totally worth it.

But why is everyday a struggle to remain close to him.

THIS HAS TO BE THE RIGHT THING IF ITS SO FREAKING HARD!

I feeel like if being on fire for God was easy then more people would be.

reality is... very few truly are.

and then there is those who are on fire for him... until that high wares offf.

I refuse.

I refuse to call it a camp high.

I want to call it my life.

I want to have peace if every moment.

I want to have open ears to hear the people crying out to God and I want so badly to be his arms and feeet.

I want to be like Jesus.

There is nothing better

I honestly dont neeeed anything else in this world.

As much as I love my friends and family and running

All I neeed is God.

To let go of everything and let it fall in Gods hands..  harder than you could imagine.

But when God takes it.

You stop worrying about what those girls think when you dont do your hair or wear attractive attire

you stop thinking only about that crazy cute guy that would be on your mind... alot.

you stop worrying if people love you and you start worrying that people feeelloved. and you find ways to show them love.

Thats when you truly feeel contentment.

We neeed to get rid of ourselves.

Cuz we are just gonna lose it anyway.

I neeed to..

stop.

Give it all to God.

Let go.

Drop it at his feeet.

and not try to work for my own gain.

not try to build relationships for my own gain

but to be freee to live as he leads me in each moment.

I realize this may not even make sense to you as you read it,

Im sorrrry but welcome to my brain.

I basically just laid my heart out for you to read.

Hope God can use it to speak to you.

Being genuine just now helped me understand.

I also jumped into my word.

which I highly recomment ifyou feeeling lonely.

Dont go to people or your computer or tv

GO TO GOD.

Truth is he is all you neeeed and you will never realize it if the world still defines you.

You will never be at complete peace if whats going on in the world is all you care about

When you give it all to him.

There cares that are supposed to be there will be.

You are a beautiful person.

Dont ever give up.

God taught me that tonght

I can never give up because in him all things are beautiful.

I have faith

He knows what He is doing.

I know that to be totally beautiflly honest in front of the world can be used for his glory.

God.

Its yours.

all of it.

:)