Oh To Be Loved And To Love

To feel loved. To feel needed. To feel that sense of making a difference. To have a place in this world.

To be loved AND to love is a beautiful thing.

Tonight I was rocking Mazy to sleep and as she quieted down in my arms, she turn to her side to nuzzle her way into my arms. Oh to be loved and to love.

Walking in from a day a work and seeing Mazy kick her legs, squeal, and give me her toothy grin. Oh to be loved and to love.

To see Dan at the end of a day, catch up on our days, and to feel a love that has been nurtured for almost 10 years now – oh to be loved and to love.

To think that Someone would send His only Son, to save me. An unselfish love. Oh to be loved and to love.

Those moments holding my daughter in the wee hours of the night, I can’t help but think about the love that God has for me. God too, gets excited when we desire to know Him more – when we “walk in” from a long day and sit down with Him. Sit down and hear about what He has to say to us. The way He welcomes us to nuzzle into His arms through prayer, resting in Him, and reading the very words of God in the Bible. Oh to to be loved and to love!

Love has been complicated in a broken world. But I think God created love to be a simple thing. A simple taking time to just BE WITH. I look at how our love for Mazy and her love for us is nurtured and it is purely to just BE WITH her. I look at how our love for our Savior and His love for us is nurtured and it is purely to just BE WITH Him. Taking that time to just BE WITH.

I know I need to spend more time with God and just be with Him. I can do it so easily with my daughter and yet my Savior asks for the same thing. I pray that desire continues to grow for my Savior as well. The more I get to know Him, the more I fall in love with Him. Isn’t that true for human relationships too?

Oh to be loved and to love!