Learn To Dance To The Sound Of Love

"A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." (John 13:34)

Wow... you want me to love WHO? How about we just talk about that!!! Like surely you understand that there are just some people that have hurt me greatly and that I SHOULD NOT have to love, RIGHT?

Why is it when I ask God these simple little questions, I hear dead silence?? Ummm, where are You God?

OK, so maybe it is easier to love other people more than others... A lot easier...

Have you ever noticed the ones you have the hardest time loving... are the ones living under your skin...the ones that reveal many of the things you dislike about your own self? "Usually we see other people not as they are, but as we are." (Ragamuffin Gospel)

Oh yes, so many times I feel like the Woman at the Well -- a Ragamuffin. I don't measure up to the world's standards as a Christian and yes, I am less than perfect. Oh, what kind of Christian am I in the shadows of the night? Ever feel that way? "If they only knew..."

A friend once said, "A Christian who failed? Tell me it ain't so.... you wait til I tell Moses and Paul on you...." I had to laugh for he was right... we ALL fall short...(Romans 3:23)

It is in my darkest times when I hear "I love you" through someone or something God has put in my path that I experience God in the most intimate way. I hear the notes of my Papa's love songs as He sings to me.

Jesus came to love us all so that we too could love (1Jn 4:8). He loved the vilest ragamuffin like me.

Oh, that I may put on my dancing shoes and learn to dance to the song in my heart with a tender love and teach others the rhythm of our Papa's heart.