"People fall in love in mysterious ways." A quote from one of Ed Sheeran's very famous and beloved songs that I'm sure we've all heard at some point. Although it may be just a pop song lyric to some, to others it has a much more impactful meaning. Love is a word known since the beginning of time, its gone through centuries of cultural chance, it's brought people together in ways never thought possible, it's been a source of hope and light, a strong stand point. What I find fun to think about is the fact that not only do certain people find love in mysterious ways, we all do. Every specific way that couples come to love one another is mysterious, its not able to be calculated or predicted, it simply happens.The connection shared between two people comes about from mystery and that is beautiful. The fact that we all have our own love stories in which are completely separate from one another is beautful. Even if couples met one another in the same place at the same exact time, those two couples stories would still be completely different. Love is a gift and I think that often times we try too hard to calculate it and map it out, and know the exact coordinates of when it will happen etc, that we miss out on enjoying the mystery. Enjoy the mystery, if it's already come then congratulations! If your still waiting maybe trying to map it out, stop, enjoy right now and enjoy the mystery that is yet to come <3
A thought came to me today as I stumbled upon some inspirational posts. Why are we often so eager to escape our troubling circumstances. We get trapped in the fire and get so focused on getting out that perhaps we miss the most important question of all, what refining needs to be completed in the fire? Just as a welder uses the fire to shape and refine metal, so God uses our circumstances, "fires" to shape and refine us. If he simply swooped in and saved the day, we would lack the knowledge he hopes us to gain, we wouldn't grow in character or wisdom. In the fire we think he abandom us, left us to our own devices, but in reality he is more present in the fire even then in the calm. It's when we feel abandoned that he's calling to us the loudest, beckoning us to just open our ears to listen to his voice. Take the fires in stride, don't immediately reach for the extinguisher. Allow the flames to surround you with the confident knowledge that the one whom the...
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