Love is so much more than a word. 

It is an action, it is a sacrifice.

November 17, 1994 the day my parents life was changed, the day I entered the world. Ever since that day I have been shown love, it is hard to think of times when I wasn’t. My parents’ sacrifice of love for me is so great. They sacrifice their time to be there for me to talk to at any hour of the day, to watching and supporting my many years of softball, to being there for me when I need a hug. They don’t have to show me love but they do and because of it I can truly say I know what love is.

I am blessed because I have never lived a day in my life without knowing what love is.

But just experiencing my parents love isn’t where this ends. It ends with the ultimate sacrifice of love a God who loved me and who loved you so much that He sent His son to earth die for us!

Love so sacrificial, that He would die for me. That is love at its finest.  

Although I can’t fully understand Gods love for me, I have an idea on what it is like because I was able to see love in action through my parents.

I wouldn’t be the same without Gods love because it changes people. You cannot force someone to be saved but you can show them what following Christ looks like. Also you can love like He loves you and you can leave an impact on someone solely by loving them where they are at. You don’t have to travel the world to love someone either, I just feel called there but that doesn’t mean I won’t love others around me. It just means my calling is to reach the unreached by serving a little farther away from my home.

So I think about what I will be doing when I leave in August.

I think about the people.

Who have never heard the words I love you.

Who have never been hugged.

Who have never seen love in action.

Whose definition of love is something that is so fake and distorted.

I go for them, ALL of them.

I go to share love with those around me.

I think about my life and if I was never shown sacrificial love how would I be able to understand love.

How can someone ever be expected to understand Gods love if they have never been shown it?

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” -1 Corinthians 13:13

In Christ,

Cayla