Humble Me

Understanding love is a never ending process. It grows day to day and it's the subject of many songs, stories, books, and movies. As of late, I have truly come to understand how love fits into everything.

I was on my way to work this morning listening to Norah Jones, Humble Me. It reminded me a lot of my previous marriage. At this point, I have found a love that it true and normal compared to the abnormal to which I have been consistently exposed. As I listened I began to wonder: Are we exposed to people who show us what love is not just so that we're open to what love should be?

I suppose we appreciate it more when it comes our way if our experience hasn't been all butterflies and rainbows. Truly, if it were already that, would we need to ever leave our first loves? And how does God fit into all this?

Obviously, God committed the ultimate act of love by sacrificing His Son. I suppose we truly do not know love until we are able to embrace God's love for us. Even after salvation, that tends to be hard to comprehend. We lose sight of Him and thereby become the self-centered creatures that we tend to be.

As with anything, I believe He gives us specific relationships and experiences for a reason and a season. We are forever learning and growing but to really start the process, we have to trust Him.