The Wonder of Love

Have you ever taken the time to sit down and really think about love? I don't mean just thinking about it. I'm talking about concentrating on the very essence of love. The kind of love that penetrates the deepest most secret, most personal, most influential realm of your inner being. The kind of love that, when discovered, changes your life so much that you are completely undone. Not undone in the sense that your life is in disarray but in the sense that every aspect of your soul is exposed and vulnerable.
I thought about love on two different occasions, both which brought me seperate revelations. Two revelations which have caused my life to undergo changes most extrordinary. Revelations that caused time itself to stop. Where the cosmos were in perfect allignment and every meaning of existence made sense.
I've been reconstructed both spiritually and unconditionally. One through grace and the other through compainionship.
The greatest love of the two is the love which I came to know by means of the Holy Spirit. Through grace I have been given a gift that no mortal on this earth can provide. The gift of forgiveness. Not by my own works but by the grace of God I have been forgiven of my sins and made new in Christ. I can think of no greater love than the love God offers us. He joined his creation, in all of its falleness, through the incarnation of Christ and experienced the temptations that we are faced with everyday. He was found perfect and stood in our place as the ultimate sacrifice to atone for all sins. Have you ever met anyone who could love you more than this? I can promise you that you never will.
The second love that reconstructed my life was a girl who helped me find the real meaning of being in love. Because of her my entire outlook on relationships has changed. Through our companionship I have been inspired to be a better person by both God and her. She has shown me a kind of love that no girl I've ever encountered has ever matched up to. I wake up everyday excited that I have both God and her to experience throughout my day. Without her my life would lose a little bit of its color.
I like to thank God as often as I can for both her and the grace that He has given me.