I learned my lesson yesterday. I got my first virus or almost
virus on my laptop.
I just
wanted to download the movie Liar, Liar with Jim Carrey in it, to watch for a
group project in speech and then an hour later I kept getting all these
pop-ups.
Needless
to say, I was freaked out and didn’t want to touch my computer until I could go
to ITS for help the next day.
WHICH
is why, I learned to never download movie playing applications that aren’t
certified and also today is technically day three of my research project but is
day two since I didn’t blog yesterday because of the virus scare.
ITS
helped me uninstall everything and I’m good now so HERE GOES!
I’m talking about the word today. That word that is a bubble
for those couples in lines at the amusement park looking so deeply into each
other’s eyes that they don’t realize the line moved up 10 minutes ago, that
word you use to describe your favorite dessert with fluffy, whipped cream on
top and that word that you use to express your thankfulness for your selfless
mother and self- sacrificing grandparents.
Love.
Love is celebrated on Friday, so I thought it would be
appropriate. Yeah?
What does love mean to you? That question is asked a lot,
but there’s so many directions that it could be taken.
In my freshman experience class, LART (“liberal arts”
combined), we had to play and present our favorite love song for the class and discuss how
it communicated love and what kind of love it was.
Recently, I was over my friend Katie’s sister’s house and
they were playing this song called “Dancing in the Minefields” by Andrew
Peterson. Ever heard of it? I hadn’t either. But Katie’s sister said when we
find husbands, that they need to listen to this song and encompass everything
it talks about.
A couple weeks later, and that song is my #1 favorite song
now and I played it in front of my LART class today. My friend Katie gets teary
eyed when she listens to it and wants it to be played at her wedding.
I’m linking the lyric video to the song so that you can
really marinate on the words that Andrew Peterson has to say. The song holds
such deep emotions, unconditional love, what is so important in marriage and
relationships.
Dancing in the Minefields video- click here
The title of the song “Dancing in the Minefields” relays
that in life you must take great care to avoid the hazardous places that exist.
And if you do step on a “mine” then you can’t walk away from each other, you
have to help each other in getting better.
So what about those
hard times that we all will go through? Don’t you think that’s what makes love
grow?
Unconditional
love.
Unconditional love is
what we all should be trying to live out and celebrate. That kind of love that
God demonstrates on us. That’s what I think love means.
It’s the one thing that unites people together through a
rough time, the thing that can bring back people together and it’s what should
be one of our missions in life…to love unconditionally!
Sometimes it’s hard to love someone. We all have those
people, but on this Valentines Day, I challenge you to not only love the people
that are easy to love, but love those people in your life (work, school, home…think
of that certain someone) that are hard to love. Because yes, they have their
reasons for being hard to love, but God loves them with an unconditional love.
So let’s go dancing in the minefields. Let’s go sailing in
the storms.
Cause we bear the light of the Son of Man, so there’s
nothing left to fear.
Talk to you tomorrow,
Marisa
xo
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