Talk about love over and over again.

So I've been bombarded with topics like these for the past months. Not that I hate it, I actually find it a rather archaic area to grow in character, as I am continuously swamped by stinging slaps on the face as I am endlessly faced by correction. Gratitude is due for the opportunity to minister through this also, as I have never been able to touch as much lives as I have right now.

It is rather stupefying.

The Gathering with my favorite bunch of girls today was as you would expect it, following the Victory Group material for this week. But then it doesn't end there as Ate Zi or somebody in our group would inject another topic based on a Word, a book, or something they have received recently -- spiritually. Everybody would be intent on listening as the conversation is never short of being animated. Everybody shares, everybody has a laugh, and everybody kisses each girl goodnight with something new and timely planted in each respective heart.

Love right here. Haha

Now, what would you expect ladies my age would usually be speaking about?

Apart from the usual whatnots you would hear about the Biblical sense of love, there was this one single point shared by one of us that really struck me the most, which actually almost made me tear up a bit.

Ate RJ and I attend the same medical school, and she is a year higher than I am. She's that kind that you would expect to always stick to the rules, follow a good example, and have the soft-spoken nature that you could never dare to trouble with. Though she and I aren't exactly alike in a lot of places, I look up to her in so many ways. I admire in her intelligence, her character, her insights, her take on medical school, and her walk with the Lord. I can see in her the rampant desire to grow, because as though she is already like that, she shows that she still looks up to the perfection of Jesus to keep shining upon her life.

I always take note of what she says, and what she said earlier tonight was the best I've heard so far.

"The best indication that would tell you that a person is worth it all... Is that the ONLY reason why he or she would ever want to let you go, is that he has to choose ONLY between you and God." 

I know that a man or a woman like that isn't exactly somebody that you would easily find. But if you ask me, I know full well for a fact that a case like that, is totally and completely possible. The more that a person puts God first in his life, the more he learns how to truly love and honor, because His character and His favor continuously flows in him. Not for personal gain, but as a basic gesture of love and devotion for the First and Truest Love.

It is my prayer that I never cease in my quest to be keep Him as King in every aspect of my life. Though I may stumble and fall, I know that His grace is always enough for me.

"Wait for the Lord ; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." ~ Ps. 27:14

Lovely to be back in Iloilo. :)

~Ella