Last month I found this plan in my bible app titled “gradual goodbye” by Welby O’Brien. When I read it, it took me back to what our family had to fight through up to last year. The lost of our dad has made this part, ”the gradual goodbye”, felt insignificant, hidden, and buried deep under; but in fact it is not, the messy middle between the start and the end of something is where . . . . .

Love, a four lettered word that sound so simple yet so complicated.
It’s one of the hardest concepts that I have to face and struggle with in life, yet.

Growing up, this is my understanding of love.
If you do as expected or more, then you are loved.
If you do . . . . .

And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. -Luke 7:37-38

Boo . . . . .

"There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her." -Luke 10:42 

Martha was very good at what she was doing. She knew she wanted to serve. She cooked, she ministered, she accommodated the Teacher and the other guests. She moved diligently. Martha was concerned about all the import . . . . .

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.…" -Ezekiel 36:26 - 27

A minister shared that once a man came up to him and asked if it was possible for the Lord to unsc . . . . .