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Just a little side note:
Yes, I changed my background
No, Im not sure I will keep it
Yes, do check out my twin sister's brand new blog http://thecamoballerina.blogspot.com/
It's awsome. Just like she is :D

Love. Post 1of 14

Welcome to Febuary! I cant believe that it is here. This month I am going to do 14 posts on love. Unfortunetly I do not have the opportunity to blog every day but each post will represent the days leading up untill valentines day. I am going to hit on ideas such as what love is and isnt. Maybe show some songs that I feel describe Biblical love, who knows I might even do a crafty one! Lets start.

 These last month I have spent a massive amount of time in Gods word. I've read
*1st and 2nd Peter,
*1st and 2nd Timothy,
*Philipians,
*Colossians,
*1st Thesalonians
*and I am on the 2nd one now.
The last time I read this much of the Bible in such a small amount of time was a few years ago when I tried to read through the entire New Testament in a year. I never finnished or found it very rewarding.
I discovered that the problem was that I was treating it like a text book instead of love letter from the maker of the universe.




Think about it. How do you read a text book?
If your like me its somthing along the lines of
*first figuring out how much I have to read (so I dont go over).
* Groaning at the seemingly ungodly number
*Staring at the clock and trying to determine how much of my life this is asking for
*skim, while highlighting the parts I will need to come back to quickly while studding later on
In essence, learning what I need to learn in the shortest amount of time so I can do somthing that is really interesting...like knitting

But how do you (would you) read a love letter?
*quickly tearing it open with great anticpation
*reading slowly
*carefully
*deeply
*your heart would swell as you read the best parts over and over
*you would keep it in nice condition
* read it on stormy nights, soaking in the words
* memorize parts of it and think of them durring your day to day activities.




Now the God of the universe, who has known you, and planned your life from before he flung the stars into the heavens writes you a letter. The and in it he tells you how much he truly cares for you and how how wants you to live. And that if you fallow this plan of His you are going to do great and wonderful things!
And that he is building you the perfect house in his mansion. Better than any of the ones you could imagine here on earth. He knows you better than you know your self, so it is going to be awsome! He writes of all the amazing things that he has done in the past out of love to you. Such as sending his son, a part of himself, to be tortured, killed, and put in a grave. But not just to do that, but to kill death its self. To make a path for you, his broken little child to come to him.
 
This is the Bible.
This is love.