365 2014 Day 52 Love

I love this photo of Samantha and Michael that I took during their engagement session. They will be married next month. I am honored to be part of love their story, even in if just in a small way.

This is love — a light, a fire, a beacon that helps us to find our way home. Samantha and Michael’s love is new, but it is rooted and kindled in the oldest love of all. Scripture says that God is love and also that he is the light of the world. When we choose to love, to let go of our inhibitions and surrender to it, we are shedding light into a world that is blinded by darkness. The world cannot find its way without love.

That is why we cry at weddings. The oldest love story of all time is being told again and again. We know it deep within. It is the great rescue, a groom coming for his bride. It is love himself stretching his arms open to lay down his life. Love is sacrifice and vulnerability. It is trusting and believing over and over. Love is intoxicatingly sweet and deeply painful. It is worth all of it. It was meant to be shared and not kept to ourselves.

So let your let shine.

Love.

Ephesians 5:1,2 ~”Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.” ~ The Message