LOVE IS ....

Love IS: I was the youngest of six children and we lived in a 3 bedroom house, there were 4 girls and 2 boys, and i was the youngest. My oldest sister married when I was 7, which left 3 girls. My older two sisters shared a room, with a small bed and i got the couch in the den...every night, i would get up in the night and wander into their room and one or the other would scoop me up and put me in the bed with them. I just loved that, made me feel all cuddly and snuggly. They sacrificed, they gave up their own comfort that's what love is.

Love is...a husband going all over the city looking for a heating pad, because he feels it will help his wife's back, when he himself has a cold.

Love is...a 6th grader washing and peeling and cutting potatoes while watching his Bible class DVD, without being asked, because his mother can't sit in a chair.

Love is...A college student setting aside money for Lottie Moon Christmas offering.

Love is...A grandmother hanging mistletoe in her house for her grandson and new fiance to find.

Love is...Brothers going to a nursing home to give out fruit.

Love is...a husband leaving his new wife, to serve our country in Iraq, missing all the holidays with her and his family.

Love is...a teenage age girl making her little brother hot chocolate because he is having a long day of school.

Love is...a grandson and his fiance spending the weekend with Mamaw, helping her drag out all her decorations/tree and decorating the whole house with her.

Love is...a church, supporting their pastor when he was not able to pastor for 3 months because of an accident.

Love is...a cosmetologist cutting cancer patients hair or styling wigs for free.

Love is...A grandmother going all over the place to look for a certain game for her grandson overseas, and she has an eye infection.

Love is...a wife showing amazing courage, strength and faith in her husbands accident and as he continues to recover.

Love is...A niece going to be with a widow on the anniversary day of her son's death, taking her to the cemetery to put out Christmas flowers, and spending the night with her, so she wasn't alone.

Love is...a pastor's wife teaching Bible studies at the nursing home.

Love is...a group of RA's making bird houses to sell for Lottie Moon Missions offering.

Love is...a sister giving a massage, pedicure, manicure, hair cut, the day before her sister returns to the mission field.

Love is...A brother buying his sister a plane ticket so she could spend thanksgiving with his family and their mother.

Love is...a note, a smile, a prayer given at just the right time by a special friend.

No matter what your love language is or how you show or know love, the fact of the matter is that LOVE IS SACRIFICE, LOVE IS GIVING, LOVE IS PUTTING OTHERS BEFORE OURSELVES, LOVE IS FREE, BUT IT ALWAYS COSTS.

LOVE IS...GOD GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE...