extraordinary love.

"We must grow in love and in order to do this we must go on loving and loving and giving and giving until it hurts-- the way Jesus did. Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."

--Mother Theresa

wow. when you think about the love that God has for us, and the amazing ways in which He's shown it to us, through Jesus, through people, through life. i can't help but be just speechless and in awe of my Creator and Master. it makes me love Him even more. and i am so thankful that He chose me to be an instrument of His love as one of His children and that He has given me so many people to love. i only pray that i learn to do so more deeply and more extraordinarily as He does for me each moment.

i am so blessed to be so loved.

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." [amen.]

-The Apostle Paul, Ephesians 3:14-19, NIV

-lovingly-

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