Special Kind of Different ... But Love

Dragging the garden hose through black eyed susies this morning;

the shiny wet blooms of this other variety of Rudbeckia begged to be photographed.  

I've walked past them so many times but today... 

was

 different.  

Standing over them and gazing down... I noticed  how 

it appeared that a flower was painted on top of 

a flower.  

It was stunning.

From darkness ... to light.   

I snapped a few photos and later went inside.

Opening my ipad... I listened to the daily reflection 

on Formed.  It was about love. 

Loving even our enemies.  

It was one of those days ... I could feel 

that was all 

different. 

This love stayed on  my mind while I did my other 

studies and wrote out my verses of the day.  

It's crazy how love somehow keeps growing always in our lives...

and that our understanding of it grows in layers too ... - even seasons. 

It's as if through the Holy Spirit ... here and there we get this glimpse of it 

that pricks us different.  

I don't know how else to explain it? 

I can't. 

As I flipped through my books... 

and little rough flower sketches ... 

the word unfolded more .... 

As the  morning progressed, 

I felt like I needed to come back here to the Shed and 

share this journey and my simple process. 

I questioned why... 

But I don't know why...

(Just do it) 

So ... here i am.  

If you've read here before then you might know 

I often doodle bits of life... 

Especially in this faith  journal.  

A little old lady in a nursing home once told me 

It's all about the love.  

She came back to my remembrance 

today.  

Her words... of love 

so long ago... - I knew from the moment 

she spoke them... were anointed.  

It's all about the love. 

It's all about the love.

It's all about the love. 

 

Reading the word...- 

loving others sounds so simple ... 

and yet relationships are often messy.  

Love can be so easy and 

so hard.  

Today's word was perfect for my today. 

I was pricked. 

Hard. 

Pricked to the different kind of love. 

At least for a situation 

I found myself in this

very day.  

I had a task before me 

that I didn't have it in  my  heart very well to do. 

I was going to go through the motions of it ... 

 fully planning to do it with very little love.  

Truth is my way was ... with a side of bitterness and maybe gritted teeth?  

Because this person and I ... we don't click.  

As far as relationships go we are an old wound that hasn't healed so great. 

When we're  together it's like this person just picks at my heart like a dry scab.   

But love.

So today went different. 

But 

love.

My old task went out the window. 

In the trash literally.  

Love changes things... and so I started over. 

I did it with love.  Even still...

no matter what.  

I wish I had more answers than I do. 

But love tells me to 

listen and do it different. 

Go above, go beyond, and keep going.  

love more

love more

love more

  

I made scripture pictures for myself from today's flowers.  

So I'll share them here as well.  

If they speak to you feel free to use and share them. 

#sharethelove

Finishing my studies I opened Emily. 

She often holds my prayers.  

She's messy... like me and I share it here today 

for whatever reason.... 

If nothing else... 

because it's all about the love. 

Until we meet again, 

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