It is beginning to feel like Fall. There's a crispness in the air and the sun hangs lower in the sky at noon. I don't particularly like Fall but it does encourage the drinking of more hot chocolate. On another completely different note in my head...
I want to know what it means when someone says to you that you deserve better or someone who's worthy of who you are in reference to your dating experiences. I'm no better than the next person and certainly don't believe there is some elevated standard that must be met in order to be with me. Should not the basis for being with someone be based on pure and unconditional love and not a person's past? The minute you start to count a person's mistakes, the minute you lose the ability to love. Not to say there are not extreme cases of love being betrayed... but I'm speaking of the essence of a person. What makes them. I'm not inclined to dismiss a man because he does not raise his hands in worship. Who am I to say that is the true way... the "good" way of doing things. For while I may be raising my hands in worship out of fear that a lack of enthusiasm may be noticed by the others in the room if I had not done so... the man next to me sitting awkwardly in his seat silently may be praying that God meets him there... in a way this woman with her self conscience hands may never know.
"Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love."
-Ephesians 4:2
"Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins."
- 1 Peter 4:8
"We know what real love is because Christ gave up his life for us."
- 1 John 3:16
I could go on and on. If Jesus loves me... a broken, wretched, failure of a woman... then who am I to say I deserve someone better to love?
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