what matters most

Love is not proud,

Love does not boast.

Love after all ,

Matters the most.

Love does not run,

Love does not hide.

Love does not keep,

Locked inside.

Love is the river that flows through,

Love never fails you.

Love will sustain,

Love will provide.

Love will not cease,

At the end of time.

Love will protect,

Love always hopes.

Love still believes,

When you don’t.

Love is the arms that are holding you.

Love never fails you.

When my heart won’t make a sound,

When I can’t turn back around,

When the sky is falling down,

Nothing is greater than this.

Greater than this.

Love is right here,

Love is alive,

Love is the way,

The truth, the life.

Love is the river that flows through.

Love is the arms that are holding you.

Love is the place you will fly to.

Love never fails you.





This song by Brandon Heath is a personal favorite of mine. To me, it gives a portrait of both love between a man and woman, and between God and man. Being a girl, love is, of course, a favorite topic of mine. But lately, I have been able to see it more deeply.

Love began with God. First off, He loved us enough to create us; He didn't just stop there...He created us in His image. He wanted us to be wonderfully and fearfully made. I love to make things. Being able to stand back and see what you've accomplished is a great feeling. When I have a project, I try to put my all into it and not just go halfway. That way, when I'm done, I know I did my best and that I put my heart and soul into it. God loves us so much that He put His everything into designing us...He did the best job possible and created us in His image - the best we could possibly be. How wonderful of a thing to reflect upon!

Lyrics really speak to me. Some more lyrics that I heard recently are:
"If I could just sit with you a while, If you could just hold me. Moment by moment, til forever passes by."

For me, these words portray love. I desire to spend time with and be held by someone I love. I think of 3 types of love here. First off, the love between family/friends. Someone I love dearly and will always think of on a daily basis is my great aunt Emmy, whom I was named after. In the past few years, we spent a lot of time together. I would take her somewhere about every other day. She could drive, she just prefered for me to chauffer her around. =) And as inconvenient as it was sometimes(or so I thought at the time), I wouldn't trade that time for anything in the world. In October of 2007, she was in an automobile accident and suffered major injuries that eventually lead to her passing away. When I read these lyrics, I think of her. What I wouldn't give to be able to sit with her again and just have a random conversation about Eli Manning (a personal favorite of hers). Or to have one more embrace, one more famous knee pat with an "I love you." I can't wait for the day when I can spend forever in Heaven by her side.

A second type of love I think of from these lyrics is that between a man and woman. How special is the embrace of the one you love and want to spend your time here on Earth with! How amazing it is to waste the day away just sitting and talking to them.

Both of these types of love are possible, and stem from the third type of love - that between Christ and man. It's the ultimate romance; the perfect love. It's the embrace of Christ that holds me together when I can't stand to face the day. How I look forward to the day when I can sit at His feet and worship Him face to face! Because of His love for me, I am so blessed to be able to experience love here on Earth through relationships with people.

I pray that I can express love to everyone around me so that they may be lead to the ultimate romance with Christ.