Love Slows

Welcome to day 2.

For those that want to join, we’re memorizing one little bitty verse every week this year. Here’s the first one. It’s 15 words long. You can do this.

Scripture memory is a purposeful action that has been instrumental in my faith walk for several years now.

I’ll give you my biggest tip first: write the verse down. Nothing else has been as helpful as simply writing the verse down in a journal, notebook or scrape piece of paper.

Hit reply and let me know what questions you have.

Remember, we’ve got an entire 7 days to memorize one measly sentence.

This is easy.

Or, at least, it doesn’t have to be hard.

You got this.

...their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love

Colossians 2:2

Loneliness from separation from true fellowship pervades so many normal lives.

The illusion of connection through placid, pretty picture sharing confuses the deep-down soul at my center.

Not that I haven’t made connections that were meaningful, or even friendships that are lasting online...

But we are made to be knit together in love. In fellowship. In person. And it takes time. A lot of it.

How hard this is for the addict. We want instant everything. The internet caters to this, and we expect zero discomfort. It’s what we chase for so long before coming to the end of our rope.

And then the clock starts. Recovery starts. And it’s slow.

Time is a curious thing. For years I wondered if I would ever meet my wife. In the waiting, I often despaired of not attaining what I thought was the goal: a wife, a life partner.

But I was following the path laid before me. I was learning how to be a friend, to love, to care. To prepare for loving and caring for her.

Now, many years married and four children later, I can’t imagine the time before her. But I see it was necessary to grow and to learn that love is a choice.

Being knit together is choosing to be fastened and stretched and forced to be one even in the times when it hurts and is inconvenient.

Because it is how we were made.

We strengthen each other and are stronger together than separate.

And his love and our love are the threads that bind us.

God, weave through my life.

Cheers, Eamonn
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