8.19.2005

All You Need is Love

"Who are you?"

That questions has been swimming around my thoughts for quite a while now. It first came to me when planning a devotional for my teens, but seems to have attached to my brain and i have not examined the answer.

what am i defining myself by? my wardrobe? my job? my friends? Christ?

it seems like such a hard question to answer.. who am i? is it inline with who i want to be? what is keeping me from who i want to be? (a slight difference of the so-oft asked question, 'what do i want to be?')

i have found it hard lately to relay this love that defines me into applicable terms that can sustain a life. i know how to share it. i know my own experience, but it all seems so personal and yet so simple when i try to relay to others how to sustain it.

trust, faith, believe...

is that really all there is?

many of my friends take the headlong leap into believing, and for a while.. maybe a year or two or three, they feast on all the knowledge they can get a hold of. and then it tapers off. the allure of our culture is so great, how can it not consume these souls that have yet to learn strength of character and spiritual resolve?

i fight for them against evil. sometimes valiantly, sometimes with lost hope. and i don't win as often as i would like. they are screaming for authenticity and experience and love.

is that all there is? because i can give them that. i can love them. so that's what i do. i love them. so, so much. with all that i have.

because i guess in the end that's really who i'm supposed to be.

posted by Kelly @ 9:59:00 AM 

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

quick read - Jesus in the Margins, connects with people at odds with religion/spiritual being. the longing they have but chasing after the temporal. doesn't answer everything but was good for me to read. keep loving, my challenge for my son - love without conditions, no strings, just try to love as Christ would do and does.
debby

10:45 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello,
I've been reading your posts regularly since I happened upon it by chance one day. I'm trying to figure this whole Jesus and God thing out and where I stand within these concepts. Just wanted you to know that I appreciate the honesty in your writings. Some days my soul thirsts for God and I'm not sure why. Reading your blog helps me with some answers.
Thanks! - Elizabeth-

2:32 PM  
Blogger Kelly said...

thanks, debby! you're the second person to recommend that book to me, i'll be checking it out this afternoon. and elizabeth--i'm glad my writing is helping you along in your spiritual journey. the Christian life is so wide and deep that sometimes we all get hinged on the details. hope you keep reading and discover or rediscover this irresistable love.

9:05 AM  
Blogger so i go said...

wow..i think you answered your own question incredibly well.

"this love that defines me"..

love that line..

5:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks again for allowing me to hang around the edges and read your writings. Just wanted to let you know that whenever I post a comment I promise to ID myself - no anonymous stuff.

-Elizabeth-

9:09 AM  

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I am on a journey, searching for God and what that means in my daily life. It's not about constraints, it's not about limitations, but freedom. I know something exists beyond the visible. I live thinking about possibilities and what could be and the necessary steps to make things happen. I like long talks with a good friend, drinking tea, eating breakfast with my husband, going to a bookstore (they are the new libraries), cool mornings, windy days in the fall, learning about love and life from those who seem to have found their way, teenagers, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, long baths, and connecting with another heart. I am learning how to love, how to live, when to speak and when not to, when it's time to gather the stones, when it's time to let go, surrender, forgiveness, and discipline.

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