It is from the marriage hour that many men and women date their success or failure in this life, and their hopes of the future life. {AH 43.1}
EGW - DA
“Love is awaken only by love”.
Mi hermanito sale aveces con unas ideas que me hacen sentir super orgullosa de él. Justamente ayer hablamos un rato por teléfono, y filosofamos un poco hacerca del amor.
En una me comenta: “es que cuando uno ama de verdad, uno ve a la persona a través de los ojos de Dios”. Que lindo! Esa es una de mis oraciones.
Excerpt from a blog read today:
“I’ve noticed that once one has experienced love - the real, generous, ever-expanding, painless variety that brings nothing but happiness and contentment, one is suddenly able to look at happy couples with the sort of appreciation that only comes with personal experience. The sight of happy couples brings me so much unfettered joy at this stage of my life. It just sends little tremors of sunshine through my veins”
This summer marks three years since I last was in a serious relationship. Three years of singleness. Also three years of falling in love with God. Ever since discovering Him as for the first time, I learned that before G. I would had not been capable of true, self-less, ‘generous, ever-expanding’ love. My relationships changed, my friendships changed, my interaction with the world around me (especially nature) changed. This was not an overnight sudden flip, but a progressive realization, a slow perfect gradient of lessons and softening by the perfecter of my faith. Not that I was ‘unloving’ before, but I started to grow a deeper awareness and appreciation the people and the world around me. And of course, this is a work in progress…
I sense a shift in subject matters. What started with an emphasis of the softer parts of my character, the last several months have been on the strengtening of bone and structure. I see myself avoiding this ‘training’ but my heart so desires it.
I often feel like a slow learner when it comes to God. Feeling like I’m stuck, or lagging behind, but when I reflect back I can see a plan unfolding. It is in His perfect providence that I am here. And He has been patient, harsh when I need it, healing, and incredibly rewarding.
