what i love. what love is.

yum i love birthday cake. and special dinners. and getting back papers. and my mom and sister. and my brother and dad. tourmalines (sp?) and garnets. dangley earrings and high heels. sweat pants and fun puma tennis shoes. i love dark green and gray and brown. i love blazers and jackets-not-coats. i love the fact that my sister is in love. i love coming back from worshipping and having my neck and smile muscles be sore. (kind of remarkable, really) i love roses and tulips. and giving flowers and cards and snow peas to people. and funky jewelry. and being different. i love going against the grain. doing my own thing. getting weird looks for going outside the cookie cutter. i love spontaneous back-scratching and/or playing with hair. i love laughing while i'm crying (happened for maybe the first time ever the other day...very interesting sensation). i love straight up encouragement. i love sunsets and sunrises. i love stars. i love solitary trees on rolling hills with the bright blue or dark black sky behind. i really love to see horses roll around on their backs and chase each other. i love naps in comfy chairs with the sunshine coming in through the window. and such naps at the student learning center. i love it when hair stuff smells good...like not floral or squeaky clean, but some incredible smell they come up with at all those hair product factories. i love seeing more and more how HUGE God is. i love asking Him to reveal His truth. and He does. i love watching Him pull through. every time. i love His faithfulness when i am faithless. which is quite often. i love Jesus. and want to desperately love Him more.
love is patient, love is kind. it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. love never fails.