Have you ever meditated on chocolate candy, taken a bite and tried to figure out what it actually tasted like? What you taste is sweet. If you take the sweet out of chocolate, you have bitter. The sweet AND the bitter makes a very pleasing creamy treat.
Is it the same with love? God is love. Without love, we are nothing. Noise. It profits me nothing. Bitter. Love suffers! Long! And is kind. Nice to be on the receiving end. Sweet. It is not self-centered. It rejoices in the truth. It looks for truth. It loves to rejoice. It bears all things, believes, hopes, endures. Love never fails. It is given and received.
Meditating on love--true love--is like meditating on chocolate. It is a combination of bitter and sweet. The more you have, the more you want. Love. We all need love. Love grows. It has a life of its own. Love bears good fruit. God gave love. He said to love your enemies. Pray for them. Make them a part of your life even if they don't want to be there. Maybe the sweetest part of love is to learn to give it. Or maybe the sweetest part of love is to meld the two together--the giving and receiving.
Like chocolate--sugar and cocoa. Meld it together till it all seems sweet. Bitter and sweet, and you no longer want one without the other. It takes time to make good chocolate. It takes time to make good love.,
Make it all sweet. Love is putting away childish ways.
Phil. 4:4-8. Chocolate and love can be messy.
God is love. It's who He is!
Love, a work in progress.
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