Loving Well...

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself."
Matthew 22:37


This last weekend I had the pleasure of going on a Christian Women's Retreat up to Wallowa Lake. (I said "hi" to your mom Sarah!) The above verse was our focus and I am humbled by how much I needed to reflect on what it means. We talked about learning to Trust in God, learning to Commit ourselves to Him, Sacrificing and saying No to "Self" and yes to God and having Obedience to God - doing the things He has told us to do. We talked about who we are called to love and even when it is easy to justify why someone doesn't deserve our love, it still isn't right to deny them that very thing.

I came home with a happy and full heart - a heart renewed and a spirit ready and willing to Love Well.


I'm not even going to tell you how beautiful it was up there or what perfect weather we had because I really don't like to brag.

I'm not going to tell you how much fun I had because... I think bragging is just bad manners.

I really don't wish to share that my best friend (and the sister of my heart) and I laughed until we almost peed our pants, how we stayed up late talking about nothing and everything, or how we painted our fingernails and had such a great time together - as always. I mean who wants to hear about all that anyway?

I mean, seriously, I hate to tell you that it was a perfect weekend and that, while I missed my husband and my children (and my dog), I need to have weekends like that in order to appreciate them more.

Now that I think about it - NOT bragging is over-rated and I really should have told you what a great time I had. Maybe next time I won't be so modest... (smile).