I find inspiration in a lot of things. A lot of things inspire me. Things inspire me... that I find. Sometimes I wish I could be inspired by one thing at a time so I can finish my thought process before being distracted by the next inspiration.

Where has my heart been? Its been hiding like a lunatic. It gets scared sometimes. There’s a lot out there. A lot of overwhelming things. But never the less its an adventure out there & by all means my heart is an adventurer... It just needs a little encouragement every now & then to come out of the bear cave.

Love. Its a beautiful thing when you think about what it really is. I am very loved by many people. The fact that I have people around me who will deal with me even when I’m un-dealable (I just made a new word) is electrifying! It amazes me that I can be loved by others even through the years of my wrong. I want to love people in a deeper measure than I have been loved because I want YOU to experience the awesomeness I have experienced x 2 x explosion x fist pump x rocket boost-a-trillionz!

Sometimes its hard to comprehend that people you don’t even know yet could potentially love you unconditionally. Yes, a person you’ve never met could possibly have the capacity to love you! We just have to give people the opportunity to love us. That can be super hard. What if they find out I’m the worst person I know? What if they realize that I sometimes feel like I’m a natural disaster waiting to happen? What if they notice I pick my nose sometimes... Without a tissue!?! But really, you have to turn around & ask yourself, what could be so bad another HUMAN can’t at least lovingly TRY to understand or even possibly relate to on some level. You just got to give them the chance. Hard. Core.

We all got our hang-ups.

Sometimes we’ve been hurt. Misunderstandings. Sometimes more than a misunderstanding. Sometimes real, purposeful pain. Sometimes naive pain. Sometimes arrogant pain. Sometimes people think they know better than you & lose your trust. Trust can be a big hang up. Distrust can cause you to grip your own heart so tightly it goes numb. It feels safe in your own hands. The only one that can hurt you is yourself. You have the control. But you also don’t give anyone the chance or light of day. You don’t give them the opportunity to love you. Don’t hog your heart.

You’re heart is a muscle & it needs to beat. It needs to be stretched. It needs to be worked out. Muscles get sore. Sometimes they get injured. But a healthy muscle heals in good time. It gets stronger, too. Obviously over working your heart isn’t healthy either, but if you’re just letting it sit there, grasping it, not letting it do anything, not letting it see even a corner of your little world, than you are letting it grow weak. It is of no use if the blood isn’t flowing through it.

So, how do we love? How can I trust? How do we allow ourselves to be loved? How do we be free without getting hurt?

To love, be loved, & trust means we have to give it all up. We have to lift our fitted fingers from around our hearts & turn it over to Jesus, the only one who can show us these “how to’s”. This is not a DIY project... You have to allow him to heal your heart, your wounds... Restore whatever punctures that may have invaded your heart. You have to allow him to speak to you about how He sees you & know who you are in Him. You have to allow Him to love you in all of your human ways. When you can allow God to love you its much easier to allow others to love you.

So what about getting hurt? The truth is we live in a world where hurt exist. There is no way around it. Getting hurt is a risk you have to be willing to take if you truly desire Unconditional Love to overflow from within you. There is no promise that you will be unconditionally loved by humans but when you unconditionally love others you are potentially helping someone else come to the realization that they need to lighten their own gripped heart.

Love has been such a close subject to me. 1 Corinthians 13 kind of Love. There’s so much power behind the Love of Christ. I feel that when Christians really grasp this Love & entangle it into their very depths a lot of the other stuff we try to “righteously” “accomplish” follows. I mean, no one on this earth can perfectly love... Jesus/God/Holy Spirit are/is the only one(s) who can perfectly love & we surely can’t Love at all without Jesus infiltrating us.

Let Him be your love guide.

Now to recap...

Step 1: Let Jesus Love me! Just let Him dang it!

Step 2: KNOW that He loves me. No matter what!! He LOVES ME!

Step 3: Step out & love others. Love them the way I have been loved!

Step 4: Step out & allow my self to be potentially loved by others.

Step 5: Just Be Loved