the value of love.

So I am terribly bad at keeping this blog up, but I am also terribly bad at actually taking the time to sit and think about things so I'd say those go hand-in-hand. Let it be said that I am not a thinker, not an over-analyzer, not a tv watcher, not a radio listener, not a worrier and definitely not a news junkie. I rarely get on my laptop because it's old and slow and I don't like to sit around waiting. The most television I watch is the occasional Saturday afternoon movie when I lay on my parents couch and fall asleep, Grey's Anatomy and the Vogel's Netflix when I stay at their house to watch their dog. I'm not one to be caught sitting around watching blissful nothingness. I am not a couch potato or a french fry eater.

Among the long list of things I am not, there are a few things I really really enjoy. I love vanilla iced coffee, my iPhone, tweeting, reading, sleeping, creating, googling, babbling, pretending like I know foreign languages, my job, people, school, laughing, pretending like I do yoga, Jesus, lemons, lemonade, milkshakes, and most of all, LOVE!

I love love. Here are my thoughts on the world and love.


I want so badly for the world to understand the richness of the value of love. Love is everything we long for. It is the answer to everything we have all been searching for in so many ways. The Declaration of Independence states that as Americans we have certain unalienable rights, namely the right to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’. Love is life. Love is liberty. Love is happiness. The anger and aggression that so fills this world has torn down the castles of love in our hearts and left broken walls that keep said love on the outside. If we have the right to pursue happiness we have the right to love and be loved. Who turned us into such loveless people? Every fracture in the lives we live, as well as the world we live in, is caused by the lack of love (these are lyrics from "Needles & Thread" by Sleeping At Last).


“Miserable Christians do not attract others to their faith”
–tweet by @mikeglenn.

Dear Christians, if you find yourself miserable, where is your faith in the God you believe in? My God is love. My God fills me with an inexpressible and glorious joy. My God gives me passion and desire to want the things that His heart desires (not that I am anywhere near solely attaining them). My God takes the misery out of the life lived here on earth because my citizenship is in Heaven. My God provides me with hope to say ‘I will not live to the standards of the world and just scoot along, complaining and moping around like everyone else, but I will live a loud, courageous life that exudes love.’

Stop staring at your computer screen, your television screen, your iphone screen, set down your beverage and go talk a few of the broken people in your life. Let them feel loved. The point of Christian is to be Christ-like. Christ talked to people. Christ probed through the surface went straight to the root of things. Christ LOVED. Let us love.


That's all.