“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. —Malachi 1:2

How does it make you feel to know that someone loves you? Many people are just a little uneasy when someone comes up to them and says, “I love you.” Sometimes I say it to people I know really well. As I am about to get off the telephone, I say, “Love you,” and they don’t know how to respond. “Right, oh well, um . . . ” is often all I get in return. Once in a while, if they are used to me telling them I love them, they say, “Oh well, same to you.” But it is a good feeling to know that you are loved. I want to hear it from my wife every day, and I guess she wants to hear it from me every day, too. Victor Hugo, the nineteenth-century French writer, said, “The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”

We all have a need to be loved. When people are difficult to understand, when I wonder what makes them tick, I find that what they most need, and what they most want, is to be loved. There is nothing that breaks the hardest heart like the feeling of being loved. All of us can face terrible opposition and suffering if we feel approved of, accepted, and loved by someone whose opinion matters to us. There is an even greater feeling than knowing another person loves you, and that is knowing that God loves you. There is no greater feeling than that. When I feel that God loves me and approves of me, I can face a thousand foes. And the message of Malachi is just that, You are loved. We all have skeletons in our closets, and God knows every one of them, yet He still says, “I love you.”

Excerpted from Between the Times (Christian Focus Publications Ltd., 2003).

OHKAY

Lifes a DRAG and I'm getting sucked in.

Just Felt Like Writing That.   ....Not That it MEANS anything or something....

Love.

I would like to understand it a little better. I know I feel it for my friends and family... But i'm not sure I get it entirely... is it something to be 'Got'? I'm not too sure i entirely understand romantic love either... Not saying I won't feel it.. I'm just saying... why is it here? What makes it work? How do you feel it? Or... better - how do you know you feel it or do you just think you feel it?

~things to ponder~

Found

Ok I found some inspiration on what to write about.... not in blogs... just to write... i already cranked out somethin though its probably not to good...just a poem. but eh w/e i just needa keep crackin and i think im going to stay up all night to do it - i  just need the right kind of my jams though... right now im listening to my everyday ones.... gotta make a playlist for writing.