A Quote I saw the other day.......

"Don't be afraid to fall in love with something and pursue it with intensity." - E. Paul Torrance

I saw this quote and said "wow", that is so true.  How often in this life do we fall in love?  Do you know how many people in this world never allow themselves to love, nonetheless, pursue it?  Have you ever been in love with someone or something?  .....and then just "enjoyed it" and "pursued it"?  I have and it is the best thing ever....  No matter the end of it....enjoy it in the "right now". 
Hopefully what you fall in love with and pursue is not harmful and destructive.  That brings us to the ever present need for the One who loves us and pursues us.  He will give us guidance to know what is worth pursuing....if we seek Him for it.  We are to love with the same intensity He loves us with.  This is loving with intensity:

1 Corinthians 13:4-8;13 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails……..

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Hesitation....

I have always loved love, but was not always so ready to show it.  On the flip side of that....once I decided to "love you", I was all in!  lol.  Looking back another key factor was 'really understanding what LOVE was'.  Is this love, or is it lust?  Is this love or is it infatuation?  Is this love or am I acting on a 'whim'?  Is this love or am I rebounding looking for 'someone' to pick up where 'another one' left off?  So many questions based on a four letter word.....  No matter the question, I will always welcome love.  For a minute I was deceived and 'locked up' my heart, but the Lord so lovingly showed me how wrong that is.  See for every question about love, the answer is found in our Lord.  Love is always there and ready to give you understanding so whether you are going all in, or not, your answer is just a prayer away. 

I often have a question

It stays on my mind

Can you love without exception?

And is your love as strong as mine?

 
An excerpt from Without Exception Copyrighted © 2003 by Wanda L. Scott from A Lifetime of Relationships: Letter’s, Poems and Words of Love