loving more people never resulted in less love available
live life
believe
hope fully
become a joy-seeker
even when it hurts
cries
tosses and turns
live life
loving
always loving
live life lovefully
joyfully
“Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!” (Romans 15:13)
amen
amen indeed!
Blessings and joy to you, friend!
Thank you for visiting Blackberry Lane. You have a beautiful blog and I look forward to visiting often.
Mildred, Georgia
I so enjoyed visiting Blackberry Lane – I think this poem belongs more at your place than mine:)https://bluecottonmemory.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/handing-down-sweet-things/
Hope, joy and peace…He gives it all to us!!
Blessings to you.
Chelle
Chelle – He sure does give it – but it’s a choice on whether we take it – and take the time to seek it! Sometimes it’s kind of like making our beds in the morning – it’s tough to make that choice but we’re always the better for it. BTW – I was just looking out my window and the most beautiful shower of yellow leaves spent two minutes flying by my window – I think there’s a joy message there:)
Maryleigh
Maryleigh,
Love the words in this post — lovely! Becoming a joy-seeker is sometimes difficult but helps me look beyond my circumstances. Thanks for sharing your words!
Joy-seeking is soul-building – It took me counting to 1,000 gifts to build up to do it daily – and when those circumstances stand in my way! Thank you so much for coming by – I so enjoyed meeting you at your place!
Your words are soothing to my soul this morning. “Hope fully” … “live life”… God tells us we can do and be these beautiful things through His Holy Spirit. Amen
I wanted to share with you the reply I put under your comment @ Being Woven for I did not know if you got replies sent to you. I so appreciate your visit.
“We so need to be needed.“… Yes, I saw that each day I visited Mama in the nursing home or assisted living or wherever she was as she aged…not only Mama but the many others needed to be needed. Mama, in her dementia-riddled mind, would think she was the boss of take herself in her wheelchair to the nurses’ station and tell them what a grand job they were doing for her in this company of hers or, if the mood so hit her, she would fire everyone. But she needed to be the boss.
Caring through Christ, ~ linda
I love that story of your mama – that she had the fire to get up and so something – even fire people – that made me laugh. You can tell what kind of spirit she had – a live life fully spirit! I don’t think we ever stop needing to be needed! I like also how you use the word “grand” in complimenting their job – that is an under-used word we all need to use more often! I needed a smile on my face today – and you brought it to me – what a grand gift!
Beautiful!
Thank you, Dianne! It’s good hearing from you! Hope you are doing well, joy-catching in the midst of the challenges of the daily!
I remembered this truth as we waded cautiously in the waters of open adoption. “You can never have too much love” I’d tell myself over and over as we navigated that first year. Still pulling from that endless supply. Hope fully, love fully. Love the play with words. Blessings friend!
I love playing with words – and, it’s true – we can never have too much love – and we can never exhaust it. We can put limitations on it – but we don’t ever have to run out!
Yes, dear friend, this is where we find true love: God filling our hearts with Him. We have the capacity to love, but He alone is Love!
Blessings XX
Mia
We have an unlimited capacity to love – it’s bottomless – isn’t it – but we cannot do it without Him! Blessings and joy this week, Mia!
~Maryleigh
I truly count much on the Holy Spirit and angels that help me survive when moving around and about, helping many others to be protected in our world and growing in the Lord. Very needful. I ain’t moving forward as easily and often as usual for many years. All I can truly count on is Him, His Word, and His heart. Thanks.
Beautiful point, Joanne – we don’t have to move forward like we used to – through prayer and faith, we can release God! I am so glad you stopped by. I needed to hear what you said – I needed to be reminded! Blessings friend!
I actually preached on hope and Romans 15:13 yesterday! Beautiful. Thanks for sharing and thanks for coming by my site. 🙂
That’s one of my most favorite scriptures! I’m right next to you at Kelli’s link up this week. 🙂