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Do You Know I Love You

by | Aug 1, 2014 | Reflections

As I bent over and my lips were close to her ear, my thoughts were blank. I believed I had so many things to tell her, so many things in my head that I wanted her to know. I wanted my goodbye to be so special that I would carry the memory of it to my own end. I wanted to talk about all the funny things that had happened and laugh with her about them again. I wanted to tell her how sorry I was that we were not going to be able to travel together, like we had talked about, or create new memories that we could reminisce about later.

So many things I wanted to say and my mind was a complete blank.

All I could see was a person so special to me that I had no way to express it. All I could think of was that I had such a short time to say it. Thoughts of all the things that I wanted to tell her seemed trivial. A waste of time.

What we had in the past was gone. What we planned for the future was never to be.

But GOD, being GOD, did what He always does. In that moment, He brought to me the most important words to whisper in her ear. I was at a total loss for words to describe the time that God had allowed us to be friends. It seemed so long since we first met, but now that time was compressed to moments. Whatever I had to say that represented our total friendship from the beginning had to fit within that time. I had never considered there would be an end.

Six words were forming in my mind. They were more important to me than anything I could think of from the past and anything I could say in the future. I looked at her and I said the only thing I could feel was important at that moment.

Perhaps, by God’s grace and in His wisdom, they were the words she needed to hear. These words were: “DO YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU?”

This entry was posted in Reflections and tagged how to say I love you, saying goodbye on August 1, 2014.

Change

by | Oct 17, 2012 | Reflections

I need a life-changing experience. My life was not meant to be one struggle after another. As a Christian, I am not prospering. I also know it is not God holding back the blessings. It is me, and I need to change my way of doing things.

Do you react positively to change? Do you even notice it? Were the results of the change effective? Can you live with the results of your actions?

I have struggled with life since 1999 to try and prosper. I struggled just to maintain an existence. It seems that the only thing in my life I do not struggle with is my precious wife, Shirley. With everything else, I work hard and long and find myself merely surviving until the next struggle.

I have come to the realization that everything I ever tried to do to prosper was tied to another person who had an agenda; their contribution to my task always made it even harder to accomplish.

I am one year into my own projects. I still work hard and long and I am making strides toward prospering, but still feel that it is nothing compared to the effort I put out.

Yet I write this because of a vison, or perhaps a dream, which made me aware that I need a plan that changes the way I approach and deal with opportunities that come into my life.

I believe God gave me the order in which to do this:

  • Information
  • Evaluatio
  • Consideration
  • Action
  • Results
  • Effect
  • Impact

These are the seven steps, and I believe God meant for me to use all of them. My way has not worked. It is time to try God’s way.