The GOD of LOVE
Swty’s Wall
1 John 4:8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
I never thought I would be the type to find the one I love online. Certainly not with someone whom I don’t have any idea with. It maybe odd as you may think, or bit odd as I sensed it too, however that was what happened to me few years ago.
I met a man online as I accepted his friend request. I’m sure you have thoughts running on your mind…Yes it is! At first it sounds formal making known each of our backgrounds prudently, but sooner than I expected he became “FC” to me..yup you’re right as in “feeling close!” as we label it. I enjoyed this setup, as I found myself looking forward to every contact from him and would break into a huge smile whenever I saw a message from him (nah! remembering the past). I never realized then that I had someone very special in him and that feeling I tried to ignore keeps growing day by day. This continued for months as we established emotional, psychological and spiritual connections just through emails or PMs. It’s like were virtual friends then “parang true”. Until our meeting face to face happened. It was awkward to see him in person but the bond we had grows more deeply. To cut this long story short, we became lovers as I say ” I do” I mean my sweetest “Yes!”to him. It was childish to see myself with him like young sweethearts I see in my highschool days. But that fantasy didn’t happened to us, he was mature and more responsible than what I presumed him to be. I have learned a lot of things since I come to know him which makes me a better person now.
When I finished college, I work in our province which means it will be a one-night sleep to reach each other’s place if not fly with an airline. We were first reluctant thinking we will be far from each other not being certain when to be together again. But we take it positively, being hopeful to what our God would unfold to us in the future. We learn to cling on to Him more, putting him in the midst of our relationship as we have no doubts that we will share this life together in His perfect time. Though being apart from each other becomes harder for us both. We learn to trust in God’s love for us as we take care and be accountable of this gift He had given us. We have shared everything so far and this will continue. For him to know that he can trust me is very important to me though at times we face nightmares in this relationship. Forgiveness and love is what help us endure and vanished the pain we had. We are not perfect but we have our loving and forgiving God. An absolute God but give chance.
Respect is the key to any successful relationship. Respect means that you are concerned about your partners feelings, that you understand his choices, that you listen with an open heart. Think things through for the growth of the other person joined into your life. Give them the time to work things out and not force any issues for your own agenda but for the benefit of both of you. Sounds deep as it may say, but this applies to every relationship each of us have.
Love that brings two strangers together and growing in love in a way is amazing. Love that has grown over years. Love that has seen both of us through some difficult times. Love worth having. Love that joins two hearts from afar as if we were in the same body, partners in other words (but not in crime of course). He sees in me things that no one else ever has. That I am strong but a fragile heart beats inside me. That I was shy yet passionate and somewhat reserved with many people. When I get a little down I will remember how I am blessed with this gift of love God has entrusted to us and feel better about it even if we are apart for the present time. Malcolm deserves my best as I deserve his. Together we are at our best. Together we share them all. And together we hope to make a life sharing this gift to others. This is what we have, our present and future.
Success in long distance relationship or any relationships is possible as long as you must work at it and most of all cling on to God for strength and guidance. There’s no other who can love you more than you love yourself, Him alone through His son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior…Hope this inspires you! God bless!
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Hon2:
What have you just said? “I met a man online as I accepted his friend request.” Oh really! I don’t think there is a morsel of truth of this statement. I think it is the other way around. I don’t think I am gate crusher and I can’t remember I did one any of your party… I think it was you then later on it was me being ensnared. Anyway I am flattered to some extent, generally, you are, “Cheesy”!
Cheesy! Huh! Yah, all those cheesy words would be truly authentic if it considered as God’s gift. God is always cheesy but not cheap like he keeps on luring us to go back and overwhelm us with noticeable grace of joy but we are ungrateful. God is always big-time but we are just ungrateful small-timer who are big-timer wannabes. Just like the gospel quote you have quoted, “Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.” I can’t say anything but it is just right.
Griming aside let me stoma(ch) over Swty’s interesting share. Let me point some important and interesting values…
1. Respect -I truly agree that this is one of the binding spiritual gift of God that bridge two person of different behavior, attitudes, paradigm, culture, likes and dislikes, etc… Yup, we have a huge difference between us if you talk about time and thinking but with respect that huge seems so narrow. Let me expand by putting it this way, like playing social network games this gift you need to level up and before getting that level up you have to undergo difficulties and challenges and if your able to overcome that with God’s grace of love and forgiveness then you will enjoy using the gift of respect and that respect will become your effective weapon, the respect of being uniquely beautiful creature of God. In short, respect is a process of loving and forgiving your differences. Whew! It seems I do have deep and long patience. Yes, most of the time we lost patience. Yes, we argue and shout to each other in private, but we don’t end up there. We argue and yell to each other not to hurt each other but to come up to a “point of respect”. Aha, there we learn to love and forgive.
2. Hope - “Hope this inspires you” as Swty’s try to close her point. Truly inspiring if you are able to love and forgive continuously. “Hope” truly inspires you to continue to love and forgive, because if you lost hope there will be no more. Hope is another binding spiritual gift of God for man and woman who are in love. In hope I learn to change and respect.
In sum, all of these are gifts that we received from God by hanging in there with faith and through prayers. As you like receiving gifts in your Farmville or any of your online social game affiliation you improve your character into a stronger and better character and so as your relationship.
I see space running out here, I better get going now. Thanks for reading this.
Respectfully yours,
Hon2
