When I was growing up I collected all the different God Milk ads from magazines. They would have famous people with a milk mustache. I still posters of them in local high schools. I recently read a devotional entitled Got Love? Here is my own take of the idea Got Love?
I look at my day and I can say I got Love. I have fallen in love with so many people in my short life. I take a look at my family pictures sitting around my house and I see love. I see love a grandma and grandpa and aunt and uncle who are far off. I see the love in a picture of the whole family smashed in the living room at grandma’s to take a picture this picture totally 25. I have pictures of friends around the house on walls and in places I will smile when I see them. Today I had 22 students tell me that I should tell my professors I am not allowed to leave for 2 weeks to go to class because they will miss me. Students who insist I make a binder with their pictures on them and a paper they sign just so I do not forget them in the two weeks I am gone. I cannot tell you the random hugs, notes, and encouragement I get from teenagers on a daily basis. The thing I realized reading the devotional is that not that I do not have love but it actually has me. I do not crank out love to please people or win them or even to manipulate them. God gives it to me everyday. Each day when I receive it from God it pous over onto (and hopefully into) others. This love does not come into my life stay a while and leave. When it is God’s love it comes, finds me, and it stays. There are days when I have a bad connection, interruptions, and huge pauses in my locve. There are days like my own life where there are no prom dates, dates, or all those things girls dream of when they watch the Bachelor. Love brings people together in little, gentle, lasting ways. When God is the author love always find a way and the rewards are amazing. I have been disappointed and annoyed with love and those that I love. But, I always have the Lover of my soul Jesus Christ who helps me grow and deepen me more in Him in the rough patches. The few years I have never felt more loved by Christ. Through his love I have plenty to go around. I am amazed at the people who love me back even when I am unlovable. I pray people will blossom in the warmth of my love. In this I feel satisfied. So this year I am going to be a valentine everyday of the year and share love to everyone I teach, know, and meet. Ask yourself Got Love?
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