Temples and Truth

So many changes to my heart in such a short amount of time!

I really, truly don't know why it's all meant for right now.  Something wonderful is happening... or will soon.

Whatever, anyway.

Things I've learned recently:

• Love is a Choice.
• Most of what you feel in the beginning of a relationship is held in, never fully experienced for various reasons.
• We exist to experience all this world has to offer, to become strong enough to bear our pains or have the faith to be freed from them.
• Love is... silly and stupid and risky.
• Dating someone is a risk. ALWAYS.
• The risk is always worth it... somehow.
• Life, Love, and Joy are worth everything.
• God is Love. His Son is the Living Water.  They are the source of all Joy.
• This life is... incredibly, insanely, beautiful

That's pretty much it.  Amazing, isn't it?  Those who read this (if any do) have probably already realized these things... but I don't mind.  It's the truth in my heart and if this post helps, inspires, bores anyone that's good enough for me.

I don't know... These things are so powerful to me.  I know that reading them will not have nearly the same effect as feeling them.  But it's a start.  Hello, bright, shiny, new place inside of me.  The place where my writing lies(lays?), the place my soul pours into existence in this silly world.  Oh, How I Love Thee.

"We pray for blessings

We pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep

We pray for healing, for prosperity

We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering

All the while, You hear each spoken need

Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You're near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom

Your voice to hear

And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near

We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love

As if every promise from Your Word is not enough

All the while, You hear each desperate plea

And long that we have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You're near

And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us

When darkness seems to win

We know that pain reminds this heart

That this is not, this is not our home

It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

And what if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You're near

What if my greatest disappointments

Or the aching of this life

Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy

And what if trials of this life

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are Your mercies in disguise"

"Blessings" sung by Laura Story