You know Love, Makes the World Go Round

Hello everyone! 

This past Sunday I had to speak at my church and I while in time of prayer I thought to look through a bin of notes that I have and found some information and notes on love.  All about love you see, which was great because this past Thursday at our Bible Study at church, we were speaking about enduring and perseverance that one gains, as love increases.  We were looking at John the beloved disciple, who endured great strife and turmoil, yet still to his dying day, spoke love.  

Since my thoughts naturally tend to be in rhyme or some sort of cadence or meter, I automatically began to hear many old love songs and began to sway.  You know which ones I’m speaking about, those oldies but goodies: from Stevie to Aretha, from Marvin to the Temptations, and a few others mixed in between.  They reminded me of how love really does make the world go ‘round, and how important it is to know the very source of love.  

I was also reminded of all the church songs that praise and uplift the name of God, I thought of the love that we sing about, the love that we long for, the love that God gave His Son for us to have freely... I was reminded of all of these and began to sing a song that Kathy Troccoli sang “I Call Him Love.”  In my trying to remember the rest of the lyrics I ended up writing this poem:

 I call Him loved & He calls me Beloved

Some call him a prophet 

some call him a fake

some feel He’s a distant father that 

they cannot embrace

but I,

I have felt His touch 

& I will 

never ever be the same! 

You see I call Him love,

I call Him love

and He calls me His beloved,

His precious child,

sweet thang.

Now don’t get it twisted 

it ain’t like you think 

I dont just have fanciful thoughts 

of one I wish to be. 

God’s love surrounds 

and it over abounds

changing my very thoughts 

to the thoughts that 

are His thoughts 

filled with life and love.

You see He is love

the very essence of all 

love’s beauty

all that love endures 

and all it conquers 

it all comes from Him

the maker and fulfiller of it all

You see that’s why I call 

I call him love

& He calls me His beloved

In knowing Him and receiving His love

you will learn what it means to truly love

loving you, all of you 

faults and all

it will allow you to live out that love

and that love that God has planted

that which He has invested in you. 

This is what it’s all about

Loving God,

Love Yourself,

Loving other People.

 & letting love run its full course.

I call Him love & He calls me beloved

I am talking about LOVE folks, Loving God, Loving yourself, and Loving People.  It may be difficult to love someone else, but this is only until we learn of that great unconditional love of God that we can then learn how to love ourselves and when we learn to love ourselves we then can learn to allow love to flow through us unto others!  And that’s when we will then truly let love run its full course! 

Be blessed & live love,

Minda