Love Unlocks Doors-Happy Valentine's Day

"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before." Mignon Mclaughlin
With love I am unstoppable, without it my light dims. Can you imagine being so infused with a constant infilling of love, so surrounded that you can't escape it or feel anything beyond, underneath, around or besides it? That is what Paul prays in Ephesians 3: 17, that being so rooted and grounded in love we would be able to comprehend how wide and long and high and deep the love of Christ is which surpasses knowledge.

Although lately I have seen glimmers, someday I will know the full reality of love when I meet Jesus face to face. But for now I strive to grow more fully, to live more deeply in the presence of God's love, to live dripping in it and not just speaking of it intellectually.

It is all around us, in us and through us, before us constant and available, but how easily we get disconnected from the life source.When little quills get stuck in my skin or old splitters fester, that freeing love diminishes through my diminishing perception of life and the world. It all comes down to my perception. If I am struggling and rating any given moment through all that has affected, molded and formed my perception there is no way I can accurately access the power of His love, even though His love is unchanging. My perception layered with squewed realities at times can make experiencing God’s love as illusive as capturing a greased watermelon slipping through my hands.

However, when I block the world out and look up at the heavens, I am taken back by how huge God's love truly is for me. If I could take it all in it would be explosive.

Because of that outrageous love there is the realm of possibility that I strive to live in, breaking free from all of my preconceived ideas, all of my unmovable opinions and everything I think I know, when in reality it all could be undermined in a moment by His penetrating, life altering love. Imagine being the most loved person on the face of the earth, so lost in love that nothing could stop you. The truth is we are loved that perfectly, if only we could recongnize it.