I had been told that the love you have for your children is like no other love on earth, and they were right. I just didn't think it would hit me so hard, that is until I held my son for the first time. I looked into his wide open eyes and just cried. The love I felt was overwhelming. Yet, it's so much more. It's the perfect example of how our Heavenly Father loves us. It's unconditional. Unconditional has been defined as absolute, without conditions or limitations, total. God loves us unconditionally, without limitations or conditions. He loves us absolutely and totally. No matter what we do or what we say, He loves us. The same goes for my child. No matter what he does; what he says; whether he disappoints me or makes me proud; I love him-totally and absolutely. It's a deeper understanding of the Father's love that I never had before. I'm in awe that God would allow us to feel the same type of love on this side of Heaven that He feels for us. What a gift!
You know, being a mom has been the best experience of my life. I have learned so much from my son in the short three years he has been with us, I can't wait to see what lessons lie before me as he continues to grow...
1 Corinthians 13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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