The Beauty of Love

Posted by Morgan
I had to write something for my humanities class, and I have no idea if I am completely off base on this, and it's entirely possible, and probable actually, that I am. So I would love your feedback, negative and positive.


The Beauty of Love
            Who is to say that true love is something few can experience? Love is something that everyone desires. Look at what modern culture promotes: power, money, fame, and love. While those things, according to our culture, are great, they are nothing without love. So how is someone to acquire love, and furthermore, who is to say what love truly is? Who has the ultimate say on what love is? God is love. So how does someone find that love? His love is reflected in his creation, and the ability to reflect on that is innately human. The ability to love, and appreciate love is, also, innately human. The human beings are the only creatures that have the capacity to say what love is, express it, and truly experience it in the way that God intended. Love is beautiful. Love and how it is experienced and expressed is something that only humanity can do and experience.
            What is it about watching a sunset, walking under snow covered trees at Christmastime, seeing the flowers bloom in the spring, riding horseback through the breath-taking mountains of Colorado, feeling the wind blow through your hair on beaches of Mexico, or just holding hands while sitting under the stars on a clear summer night that makes a person fall in love or want to fall in love? Why is it that these experiences are associated with love? Why is it that being outdoors in God’s beautiful creation stirs a desire for love, both to love and to be loved? It is possible that seeing and experiencing these things has a deeper effect on humanity than most would admit.
            Being outside and seeing God’s creation, for many people, stirs in their hearts the desire for love. Why? Well possibly because God created the world, and God is love. God loves every living thing that is on the earth, and if God created all of them in love then love itself is a part of creation. It seems only natural that when a person reflects on what God has made, that they will have a desire to love and be loved. Why would it not work that way? It is hard to imagine someone seeing the most beautiful sunset off the cost of Puerto Rico and then come away from it saying, “I’m bitter and angry towards the world.” Surely seeing a sunset or sunrise would stir something in their hearts that goes deeper than their own bitterness and hurt. When a person steps outside and truly admires the beautiful creation that God has blessed the world with, that love that is in creation shines through that and the innate desire for love shows itself.
Is not love something that every human desires? Whether or not it is admitted, or even acknowledged, and whether or not they ever actually “find love”, as culture commonly phrases it, it is something that is truly desired by all. Not only romantic love, but also, love from a friend, and ultimately, love from God; the love that surpasses all. Every part of God’s creation points to Him. He created the world to show his glory. Would it not be a slap in the face to God to say, “I hate ladybugs”, or “I don’t like it when I have to go outside”, because in a sense, that is saying, “God, I hate your creation.” Did God create the world so humanity could admire it from behind a glass window? No, he did not. God made creation to be experienced, and through creation he is glorified, and through his creation, he shows us love, and not just any love, the most beautiful love that exists. This love goes far beyond the stereotypical love of the latest romantic comedy. This love is the greatest love of all; it is a love that humanity will never be able to fully comprehend while on earth. Creation shows the love of God, a love which all desire, a love that is beautiful.
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Rainy College Days

Posted by Morgan
I love Lee's campus when it rains. I know most people hate those gloomy days, but I love them. I think a lot on rainy days. I love walking in the rain. For some reason rain makes me feel alive. I love feeling the rain hit my face. My new favorite thing since I've come to college has been running in the rain. It's rained a lot up here, it actually poured a couple of weeks ago. And guess what I did, I went running.
That week had been particularly hard for me personally, as I struggled, and continue to struggle, with what I'm doing here. I was really upset, about what I don't quite remember, and so I heard the rain begin to pour down and I was like, I'm going! So I did. I put my iPod in on shuffle, and I step out of the bottom door of my dorm and I took off running. It didn't take long before I was soaking wet. It was a pretty surreal time because in my head it was like a scene from a movie. I've got the music blaring in my ears and I'm running and I begin crying in the rain, and I'm talking to God, more like yelling at Him in my head. As soon as I started running I said, "Okay, God. I need some answers. I'm not going to stop running until I have some." Scary thing to say, right? Yeah tell me about it.
So I run, and I run, and I'm running all around campus and I'm soaking wet at this point. And I just kept asking God why.  Why in the world am I in college? What am I doing here? Why did You tell me to come here? Why haven't you told me what you want me to do? WHY, God, WHY?!?!?!?!?!? And the rain had stopped to a light sprinkle, and the clouds were starting to pull back as I ran over by the library. I sat down on one of the benches and kept praying and going God, is this really where you want me? And then I sat there, in tears, and I began listening to the song that was playing on my iPod. And it was a BarlowGirl song and this is what it said:
"Good morning
The night is over and gone
I thought once
This dark would last for so long
Feel the sunlight
On my face
You have brought me
Through this place

Jesus, Jesus You found me
Through the long night you led me
You set me free

Do you see
Just what you've done in my life?
You gave me
More then I hoped for; now I

Feel your sunlight
On my face
You have brought me
Through this place"


You Led Me by BarlowGirl




When I started listening to the song, it was on the first verse, and when it got to the pre-chorus of "feel your sunlight on my face" it was like something from a movie. I was sitting there listening to it...in tears, and when it said sunlight, the clouds pulled back on the sun shown right through the trees directly on to my face. The timing could have only been God. And then I listened to the song all the way through and I came out with the following conclusion.


God's brought me here. He's brought me to Lee, He's got a plan for me. I have no idea what that is, but hey, I know He directed me here. He clearly showed me that...and it was amazing! :) I love it when God shows me in ways like that...it's always so memorable.


Singing Harmony,


Morgan
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