This week I’m spending most of my time alone with God at a spiritual retreat with my husband. We are totally unplugged – no email, no phone, no TV, no newspaper, no internet (right now it’s 9pm on Friday night July 17th… yes, this is how I spend my Friday nights! Sad, but true!).
My hubby and I have taken part in 3 different retreats before, this will be our first time doing it on our own. From past experiences I know that I will leave this week feeling refreshed, reconnected and mostly LOVED.
The typical day does not consistent of me feeling loved.
No, I often fill my head with thoughts of how UN-loved I am.
I look in the mirror and see the lines I don’t love. I look at my pants that don’t quite button and see the extra parts of my body that I don’t love. I hear the screams of children fighting upstairs and I’m about to tell them just how unloved their behavior is! And the list goes on.
But during this retreat I’m going to spend my time diving into the TRUTH of Who God is = LOVE!
How do you measure love? (the following is from Many Meadows)
Ever find yourself measuring how much you are loved?
Maybe your measure is the number of people reading your blog.
Maybe it’s the number of times your husband or wife tells you they love you.
Maybe it’s whether or not your family cleans up after themselves.
Maybe it’s when life is going well.
And when those things aren’t happening, we just don’t feel loved.
Why do we do that to ourselves, to our family?
