I have looked for love my whole life. When I got it, I sometimes didn’t know what to do with it. I didn’t know how to fully except it. Or give it. Something stood in the way.
I don’t feel that way in my relationship with the Creator of the Universe. I don’t have to worry about being too selfish with His love, He has an eternal flow. I don’t have to worry about giving it back to Him perfectly, He is forgiving and patient.
In fact, nothing stands in the way of my experiencing love with others either. If I fail to experience or give love, it is because I have failed to include God in the relationship or circumstance. It is the presence of God that brings the love.
Instead of insisting that love comes into my life exactly how I assume it should, I am learning to widen my love gates. On these walks, it is a fragrant wooded path . A finely crafted young turtle at my foot. Migrating geese sliding en masse across a pond before me. A message written in chalk proclaiming God’s love. A storm of snow.
What God’s hands have created has been formed for me. Beholding that with every step, I accept and am refreshed by an ultimate love.
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 1 John 4:16
Meeting God at the Park 