the truth about love...

Psalms 68: 6 God places the lonely in families; He sets the prisoners free and gives them joy.

this morning is valentines day.. and I wake up and on the TV in my room is a beautiful large box from Helzberg Diamonds and a card.. and in the card it states... you were my first valentine.. you have shown me what love really is.. you have shown me love unconditional.. no matter what... you will always be my first love... and I am crying...

I remember when I was a child.. I never felt like my father loved me.. but I just knew my mother and brother did... my brother went off and got married.. and I was abandoned.. although that was not his intention.. that was how it felt.. and how I took it.. then my mother left me because I married a man of a different color... and that showed me that she too never really loved me.. and that was tragic for me... so the man I married proves over a short period of time that he doesn't really love me either.. and from that point forward all of the love I have is put into my kids... and I am good if that is the love that I have for my lifetime...

today.. much older.. possibly a little wiser.. I realize.. the truest love I have had has been God's love.. who has loved me when I was unloveable.. loved me when I didn't want Him.. loved me when I acted like and idiot.. and somehow.. still wanted me when I was ready to love Him completely... that is the truest love I have ever known... we talk about Jesus loving us enough to die on the cross.. I have had someone that said he would die for me.. that he loved me that much.. but when I walked away.. he shut me out.. never to accept me back again.. that is human love.. Jesus hung and died on the cross when I didn't treat Him with love or respect.. when I was unfaithful to Him.. when I didn't even know what love was.. He showed me what true love really is...

God has placed me in a family.. and He has set me free and given me joy unspeakable and full of glory... there is no love like the love of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit... with their love.. I will be happy and need nothing more..