Fast Stats: Day 3 and some other ideas

Fast Stats:  Day 3

Today I felt great.   I still want coffee (decaf in the am is ok but not as good) and I would love a piece of chocolate.. because life without chocolate isn’t really a life.  kidding.

My daily intake was

Salad plain no dressing

Mango

Soup

Gluten free granola

Contemplations:

I spent a lot of today thinking about love and the lack of love in my own life.  And no, not love in the sense of that feeling you get when you are in love.  Maybe it was my morning book discussion that I was in, or maybe it was seeing a daughter wait for a doctor to come out and tell her that her Mom was in recovery from another cancer surgery; whatever it was love has been the center of my thoughts.

Today I was reminded that love requires all that you have without any expectation for any type of return.   I mentioned lack of love earlier, and what I was referring to is that often times I don’t demonstrate that kind of love to others.  Due to my own brokenness in this area, I find it very difficult to love in anything but a reciprocal causality where if I feel that you love me then I will love you.  Real loves states that regardless if you show me love, I will love you.  Period.  Of course it is easy to love somebody that’s easy to love.  But the real work comes into play when you are trying to love the one that ticks you off, the one that comes at you with a bad attitude, maybe the one that lives with you!

Encouragement: Romans 5:8: “But God shows and clearly proves His love for us by the fact that while we are all still sinners, Christ died for us.”