Happy Valentine’s Day

The Lover Writes a One-Word Poem
by Gavin Ewart

This one-word love poem chosen for Valentine’s Day arguably expresses the lover’s overwhelming adoration of his partner better than many much wordier verses. (From the book – A poet for every day of the year)

God’s Unconditional Love

Yesterday I had posted on Love and how the Bible portrays what genuine love looks like from 1Corinthians 13. Obviously I am far away from displaying that kind of love. But I am thankful I have Him who is the perfect example of showcasing that unconditional love and He did that by dying on the cross for sinners like us.

Taken from the daily devotional by John MacArthur

God’s love is unconditional and righteous.

We hear a lot today about love from books, magazines, TV, and movies. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think that our society is the most loving on earth. Much of the “love,” though, is nothing more than lust masquerading as love, or selfishness disguised as kindness. But today’s verse tells us that “God is love”; the character of God defines love. To clear up any confusion about love, we need only to look at who God is. And then, of course, we need to seek to love others as God loves us.

First, God’s love is unconditional and unrequited. “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). God loved us when we were sinners, when we had no righteousness and we didn’t—and couldn’t—love Him back. God doesn’t love us because we deserve it or because we love Him, but because it’s His nature to love.

God’s love doesn’t mean He winks at sin, though. Just as earthly fathers discipline sinning children, “those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives” (Heb. 12:6). True love doesn’t indulge unrighteousness, it confronts it. This kind of tough love isn’t always fun, but it’s for the best: “All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness” (v. 11).

We’ll study God’s love more in the next lesson, but now it’s only natural to examine how we ourselves are doing in demonstrating love. Is our love unconditional, or do we withhold love from those who hurt us? Do we love only those who love us back? Jesus says, “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them” (Luke 6:32). Loving those who love us is easy. Christ loved those at enmity with Him, and He expects us to love our enemies too.

If You Love Someone…Just tell them already..;)

So the other night I watched the season finale episode of ‘The Mentalist’. Finally after I don’t know how many years, Patrick Jane( the lead character) conveys his heart felt feelings to Teresa Lisbon (the female lead). And this happens when she decides to move… to another state.. with her fiancé… to get married.

 

Why, why, why do we wait to tell someone how we feel about them ( and I am talking mostly about romantic feelings here) when they are leaving, or already said yes to someone else. Its so easy to take someone for granted when they are there with us all the time. We get so used to them, that it becomes difficult to really figure out what they mean to us.

 

And the kind of people I am talking about here are the ones who never show how they feel in general.. Usually reserved, they don’t want anyone else to know what is going on in their head. The truth is, everyone knows. They are just being kind by not telling you that they know.

 

I laughed as I watched the episode as Jane openly declares in front of a lot of people how much he loves her. If he was wiser and smarter and I think a little humble- he could have probably had a  less embarrassing proposal;)

 

So here is the scene from the season finale.. Enjoy 🙂

 

https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/_aFIYoXIJgM&source=uds

 

Lost Love

‘T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all

This is the last line of the poem ‘Lost Love’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Somehow I have always preferred the latter half of the sentence. I never wanted to ever fall in love coz I always feared of being hurt- in case things never worked out. Well I did fall in love- and I was hurt- and it did not work out. Will obviously not go into all the details, but sometimes I hoped it had not happened.

I know that I am definitely a better person since then. God has His ways of teaching His children. I can be quite insensitive about this whole “love thing” but He taught me how to be compassionate. I learned to be sympathetic towards other people. The many tears that made my pillow wet in the night helped me to comfort someone else when they were going through something similar.

Anyways, in all of this I am just glad that God is sovereign over all situations and He is in complete control. And in these times He has been my best source of comfort 🙂

So here is the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lost Love

(From “In Memoriam”)

I envy not in any moods

   The captive void of noble rage,

   The linnet born within the cage,

That never knew the summer woods;

I envy not the beast that takes

   His license in the field of time,

   Unfetter’d by the sense of crime,

To whom a conscience never wakes;

Nor, what may count itself as blest,

   The heart that never plighted troth

   But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;

Nor any want-begotten rest.

I hold it true, whate’er befall;

   I feel it, when I sorrow most;

   ‘T is better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all

While you were Sleeping

While you were sleeping has been one of my favourite movies since quite some time…its a simple love story between a man(Bill Pullman) and a woman(Sandra Bullock)..the reason i like this movie is coz that v always think we know who we will fall in love with…we have an image of that person in our mind..whether its how he looks or wat he likes etc etc…many a times we watch someone from afar and think, ” Oh yes this is the person m gonna love and get married to”.. but many times when we get to talk to THAT person we might actually not like him… thats how the story goes in this movie too.. Sandra Bullock works in a train station and she would see this guy(Peter Gallegher) everyday and she thought she was in love with him…as the movie goes on she ends up savin his life at the same train station…thus she gets to spend time with his family and also with Bill Pullman who happens to be the younger brother of Peter Gallagher..the chemistry between Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock is really sweet..u gotta watch this movie to enjoy it..in the end all i have to say that we plan a lot of things in r lives as to whom we gonna marry, wat job v gonna take…but we might just do the exact opposite..u might never know wat u might like tomorrow..