Now to explain my title...I've decided to start having a regular post about various things I love. It would've been, "I Love..." Sundays but the aforementioned computer wasn't cooperating last night. So, to start I thought I might give a few different things I love as a sort of getting-to-know-me post.
- I love my family. I know it's a given, but I still had to say it. These three boys are my heart and I can't imagine this life without them.
- I love Joy Murphy. We haven't been friends since childhood or anything, but it definitely feels that way sometimes. We met five or six years ago and I have had the privilege of learning to navigate the winding and bumpy road of wifedom and motherhood with her. She is a loyal, compassionate, honest person, who loves and extends mercy in a way only a true Jesus-disciple could. If I didn't have her to vent to and laugh with, especially in this season of life, I might have gone crazy by now.
- I love food. I, however, am not a foodie. I would like to say that I am, but as anyone who knows me well could tell you, I'm too picky for that. BUT, the food I do like, I like a lot. I could probably eat pizza, for example, every day of my life.
- I love having a killer sense of smell. Sometimes it's a curse, but it always makes me feel like a superhero.
- I love music. And I don't mean, in the general, sure-everyone-loves-music kind of way. I mean, I truly LOVE music. As an art form and as one of the deepest avenues for communication. Nothing can speak so pointedly as quickly as the right song in the right situation. I'm convinced Heaven will be filled with it in ways none of us can imagine.
- I love fall weather. It's my favorite season even though in southeast Texas we only get a few weeks of what you could call true autumn. We mostly just have summer and winter with a transition and the transitions are what the rest of the country call spring and fall. But it's my favorite, nonetheless. Football, hoodies, bonfires and a good excuse for some gumbo. I dare you to come up with something better than that. Hint: It doesn't exist.
- I love talking. Let me rephrase...I love socializing. Hmmm, let me rephrase again...I love socializing with one or two people at a time. Maybe three or four. I do not love big crowds, an anxiety I have to overcome when I attend a Frederick family gathering. And it is a real anxiety. Maybe not as much with family, but in public, absolutely. Strangers in general tend to trigger a slight panic, so I typically become pretty awkward with new people. I'm a small group kind of person. Being able to have real conversation is my favorite way to unwind.
- I love the Bible. And I don't mean I'm saying I love the Bible because I'm supposed to because that's what good little Christian girls say. I really love it. I can't pretend like I've been quite the student of it recently like I have in past years (years before a husband and children...not that they're an excuse), but it really doesn't get old to me. Sure there are times I just simply don't feel like reading it...but when I do it anyway, I'm never disappointed. I have to watch myself because I'm a bit of a nerd so I can get caught up in the history and knowledge of it all and be totally enthralled because I genuinely love learning...but that isn't the part that's fulfilling. It can be interesting and even entertaining, but it's not feeding you unless it's revealing things to you. Things you don't get by just reading what it says or even memorizing what it says, and where it says it. I can know about God, or I can know God. I want to know Him. How would I ever have a real relationship with Bobby if I didn't ever sit down and spend time with him and hear his heart? That's why I love the Word. It's the Father's heartbeat.
So there are a few to get you started...What are some things you love?
That is awesome..you should write a book, I would buy it
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