love

there are days when I wake up thinking there is nothing special about this day. what could i possibly make of it? i am instantly unimpressed. and i think it's because i am thinking of myself and how i could change it. yes, i have a part. but i am not looking to God to make the day. i am frustrated because i am looking to others and myself, how we have failed. knowing there will be more failures in the day to come. i have been doing this a lot lately. but today i see love for the first time in a long time. i have been given a gift, a direct shot to love someone i actually am enthralled with. and i have been given roommates to practice on. so why don't I?? because i judge. i hold on to the sins of others, hold it against them. i see them stifling life, freedom, and love. i do what they do. love is a choice. i know this. but not well enough.

i need to stop judging.

i need to love.

why?

because that, I think, is what real freedom is.

our enemy doesn't win when we choose to love.

our Creator is loved when we love, glorified, brought in to the faces and lives and hearts of others.

listen to switchfoot often.