Agape

Love is patient, love is kind… Decades have passed since I was in a yoga retreat where I learned some valuable lessons about myself and my personal journey surrounding love. It was in those days within the retreat where I had an epiphany: although I always knew I was surrounded by God’s love, I’d felt unlovable for years and had some inner work to do.

What Agape is

I spent many more years working up the courage to write a piece on love, titled Agape Love, which discusses the retreat, the still small voice, and the slow realization that I’d been offering everyone else a kind of love I hadn’t been fully offering to myself. Read more in Agape Love. Love and gratitude go hand in hand. Fully embracing the decision to treat your own life as a gift, being fearfully and wonderfully made. Honor your gift of life is where I wrote about this shift.

Why faith is my foundation

“We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 (NIV)

One of my favorite passages of scripture is 1 Corinthians 13:4-13, which says love is patient, love is kind, and faith, hope, and love remain, but the greatest of these is love. The chapter itself covers the supremacy, definition, and permanence of love.

If you’re having a hard time receiving love right now

Whether it’s God’s love, from the people around you, or from your own reflection in the mirror, I encourage you and invite you to take a moment to pause and read through 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and ground yourself in the knowledge of the truth that is love.

Where this connects

Agape is harder to fathom when carrying The Weight of shame and guilt, it’s hard to trust when you haven’t made peace with what you see in The Mirror, let alone when you find yourself waiting for the promises you’ve been preparing for while navigating through The Waiting Room.

Keep reading in Agape

• Agape Love. On learning that unconditional love was always meant to include you too.
• Honor Your Gift Of Life. What an amazing gift it is to know that you’re fearfully and wonderfully made.

Plus quotes from Maya Angelou along the way.

God’s love is everlasting with no limitations. Welcome home to yourself and extend Agape towards the beautiful human being you are.