Love like you've never been hurt...

so i went to one of my churches on sunday and my friend was preaching and said "ya need to love like you've never been hurt". immediately my mind went straight to relationships. i've pondered about that the last few days...have i really been loving john like i had never been hurt before? at work today i was reading through proverbs and i started to think more...it's so so so much more than that. can i love this or that person even after they hurt me? im called to turn my other cheek, and to love. how can i love people who have hurt me when im not letting go of the past, the pain, the grudge? i can't. exactly. i have to give it to God. i need to stop holding on to things. stop letting things get to me. i need to love everyone, not just john like i have never been hurt before. i am called to love like Christ loves me. this has just been so overwhelming to me today. i want my friends and family to really know that i love them. i dont always show it, and it may not always seem that way...but it is so so true. my prayer for this evening is that God will wrap me in His arms and make me more and more like Him.


There is a God who loves me
Who wraps me in His arms
And that is the place where I'm changed
And that's where I belong
Take me to that place Lord
To that secret place where
I can be with You
You can make me like You
Wrap me in Your arms
Wrap me in Your arms
Wrap me in your arms