Made 2 LOVE

If I'm created in God's Image, then He purposely made me to be a replica - a very poor replica of who He is.

The God I have come to embrace and know, especially in the last couple of years as I've reevaluated my beliefs, is full of Love.  Understanding.  Wisdom.  Mercy.  Grace.

It suddenly made sense today.  I have one true mission here.

I was made to Love.

Everything that I am and want to be revolves around that.  

"Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, strength and mind.  Love your neighbor as yourself."

Pretty simple.  LOVE GOD.  LOVE OTHERS.

I work and do a good job.  I have goals and things I'd like to accomplish, but at the end of the day I don't want to be there with no one that I can truly share my life with.  It's not about finding just anyone who'll be there.  It's a life filled with letting those who I truly care about know how much I love them.  It's also about letting God know that I love Him.

There is a scene at the end of the Kevin Costner movie "For Love of the Game".  Costner plays a Major League pitcher who is at the very end of his career.  The movie starts at the beginning of what would become his last game to pitch.  Flashbacks tell of the one great love that he found, lost and then realized how precious it was.  He ends the game with no one there.  His last great accomplishment.  And no one to share it with.

He's older.  His life has become the great Flashback, with no real substance left in the end.

I don't want that.  I want my kids to know I love them.  I want my friends to know that I love them.  My family.  Maybe someone special.

I was built this way.  I want to show my love.  To tell you.  To let you know that you are important to me - those of you who are close to me.

It may be the life's work that I have been striving for my whole life.

I was Made 2 <3