Now, THIS is Love!!

I said this in an earlier blog, and each day it’s becoming more true… when I’m with these kids at the orphanage I feel like I’m staring love in the face! Real love.

How do these kids know how to love? Who taught them? Looking at everything in their lives that they’ve gone through…how do they still wear love like this? Why aren’t they bitter, angry, depressed, withdrawn?? These kids have experienced more destruction in their 7 years of life than I will experience in my entire life. Yet they get it, they get love! Their love is uninhibited, unconditional. They love 100% of the time, even though they know that the people they love will always come and go in and out of their lives.

This proves that love isn’t taught, it’s in our DNA. God has made us to love, it’s what we were created for….it’s our heartbeat that He gave us! But there are so many things in our life that get in the way of love. 

God’s been giving me new definitions for things I thought I understood.  The latest treasure I’ve discovered here in Cambodia is a new definition for LOVE. I mean, I’ve been around for 27 years now, I’ve loved a lot of people in my life. I’ve been loved by a ton of people in my life. I thought I had a good understanding of what love is. But over the past few weeks God has brought a whole new depth to this simple word. The LOVE I’m experiencing here, from these kids, is hitting a deep, deep place in my heart. 

It’s like God’s saying, “Now, THIS is Love!!”