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So I recently read this book, Speaking of Love by Fred & Anna Kendall and Mary Hollingsworth. Very good book...talks about the seven behavioral life languages. (Similar to Gary Chapman's Five Love Languages.) I really enjoy these type  of books. I was just discussing it with my sister...It's just really interesting to learn about why you are the way you are and how you operate in comparison to others. I've been thinking about it often since I learned which behavioral languages I speak most naturally. I'm just beginning to understand why I am the way I am.

Well anyways... in thinking about all that, I was realizing how many different types of love are flyin' around this world. I mean, its great, God made us diverse for a reason. We should embrace our differences but also I was thinking about how many people find themselves wrongly communicated so often. Even how much love is just misunderstood or misinterpreted in all types of relationships. It's confusing. Sometimes frustrating when love isn't being given and received smoothly.

1John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. GOD IS LOVE. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 

 THEN, it dawned on me. How awesome that one day we will dwell with Love himself. We will be in the eternal presence of Perfect Love. Can you even imagine what that feels like? Flaw-less in every aspect. Never misunderstood. Completely pure. How sweet it will be to dwell with Love for eternity...

In Hebrews 11, that faith chapter, God's been revealing to me how so many of these people known for their faith were constantly "looking ahead." It's important to look towards the future in life, but even greater to look forward to our greater future when we reach our heavenly home with him. :) There is just something about keeping your eye on the prize.

Wow. It'll be...lovely.