I lived it…

I lived it… 

Inspired by the quote: “I kept setting myself on fire to keep you warm. You never once asked why I was always burning.”)

There was a time when I believed love meant giving endlessly…setting myself on fire to keep someone else warm. And for too long, I burned in silence, unnoticed, unasked, unseen.

But then everything changed.

Because when you’re loved totally, completely, and wholly by someone when that love reflects Christ’s love…it doesn’t burn you out. It frees you.

You give, not out of desperation or survival, but because love flows so abundantly between you, it overflows. You’re not losing yourself, you’re finding yourself in the light of someone else’s grace and devotion.

And I believe the only way to be loved like that truly, deeply, as it was always meant to be this side of heaven…is to know the love, forgiveness, and healing that comes from Christ. Without Him, everything else is sinking sand. It doesn’t hold. It doesn’t last. It doesn’t work.

But when someone is fully surrendered to Christ, when they want His will in their life…that’s when love becomes what it was meant to be. And that is what I was given.

I was blessed. I was chosen to see it, feel it, receive it. I got to live it, and I got to give it back. Even if the time was short in the grand scheme of things, I still got to experience the rarest kind of love this side of eternity.

And I will forever be thankful for that.

It was the best.

I am blessed beyond measure.

God gave me the desire of my heart… and I didn’t just dream it… I lived it.