Como estas? How ya 🐝? It’s purposely been a minute. Our city of St. Louis continues to be in disaster relief mode finding our way in the aftermath to rebuild and restore what has been lost. My gratitude and heart goes out to every St. Louisan impacted by these tornadoes as well as every person stretching themselves in these times to fill the overwhelming amount of needs and organizing. Lord we continue to pray that every need be met and that no one will lack a thing that is needed- especially LOVE!
So Holy Spirit is #Priceless to me okay?! If you don’t know Him, how He can operate in your life yet, please believe me that it’s worth the world’s weight in gold to truly know Him!
This morning He brought me to Acts 4. I posted verses 29 & 30 on Facebook, but if you’d continue to read you will discover even more treasure than what appears on the surface!!! I encourage you to read this whole message and for now I will share this with you:
Acts 4:29-31 ESV [29] And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, [30] while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” [31] And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
One thing I am absolutely here for is viewing my timeline and seeing the SHIFT in how so many people that didn’t used to profess their faith or the name of Jesus on their social media platforms are doing so! It’s beautiful to witness those that choose to speak with boldness about their faith, and more importantly HIM who they have their faith in! Glory to God!
Now, let’s get into more of this message of LOVE ❤️
Layers of Love
Oh to Him who is LOVE that we adore, honor, praise and give all the glory to! God thank You for being our greatest example of love and how to live it out. Lord God, our Father we thank You!
As I contemplated in the bubbles 🫧 about the love I desire, lack of love I’ve received from some and that which I’ve held back from others, Holy Spirit showed me some people and instances where I can not just lend but give love to others, as I completely put my trust in Him and use wisdom.
He has always loved me. The depth of His love is deeper than the deepest ocean, higher than the highest heaven, wider than our earth’s widest boundaries- it’s immeasurable and He is simply incredible!
His love thought about me from the beginning of time. His love stood firm as He hung and was given sour wine.
His love knew me as He formed me in my mother’s womb and knows every hair on my pretty little head. How amazingly divine.
His love is agape. It’s rare. It’s pure. It’s neverending and an unchanging love.
And then there’s us… Well I won’t drag you into this, today I will just be honest, open and transparent as I talk about me. Okay?
My love has matured praise God, AND there have always been and are layers to my love. Not everyone receives the same portion of love that I purposely pour out.
Layers of Love fill the inside of my furthest boundary to the inner most parts of me.
Fight, compete or creep me- you only reach the outer most layers of my love.
I know I was born to love, so it pains me when I am limited in my expression of love to you. I feel an ache to find ways to not hold back the magnitude of love I could bless you with if you’d just allow me.
I find myself leaving layers of my love everywhere I go.
Mijita favorita stays covered in layers of my love, where mijito in his pain buries or seems to throw off the layers I’ve shared with him. But God!
There are people in my life I love and cherish that only have the capacity to allow me to drop off layers of my love on a time clock as it seems they keep cross hairs on the second hand as it races around.
And then there are others that come to me literally trying to pull off the layers of my overflowing arsenal of love before I can generously bless them on my own.
Yes, and because my layers of Love cascade from me pouring out like a waterfall, sometimes people find themselves in the plunge pool that aren’t used to receiving the level of love that I offer and they can be overwhelmed. I pray that those that do accept the plunging pour allow it to erode their past experiences or trauma that “love” had left on them.
And inlove it was shared with me yesterday that in my heart of love and posture to serve others wherever I see a need, that I am also responsible for asking permission to help others. Love respects. Love honors. Love supports AND learns healthy boundaries. I never want any layer of my love to offend, upset or hurt anyone.
Daily I’m leaning in and learning more about God- His Will, His Word and His Ways so that also means that my layers of Love are evolving, going deeper and growing- On Purpose!
When my time with someone has expired, I don’t go around collecting the layers of Love I layed down for them, placed upon them or begged them to receive. What Love I give can’t be withdrawn or taken away- it’s permanent. Love is a gift, a necessary piece of our journey that has an eternal position.
Who am I to hold back Love from you that has been freely given to me and I know the effects it causes me to see?!
Who am I to not open my eyes, ears, heart and arms to give you a glimpse of His love when you need it the most? To show you how He would love you if Jesus Himself were standing in my place?
Even still, although my waterfall of love at its base may feel to you as a love bomb that has been dropped on you without a warning, I apologize and I pray that the love I earn permission to share with you springs up from east of the Jordan reaching you with the power to soothe and heal the parts of you that you’ve refused to have touched. It’s only God’s love I freely give to you as it is freely given to me.
May the layers of your love reach new heights boldly spreading out wherever you go as you walk in love with a servant’s heart- On Purpose!
Bienvenido! Welcome to my little corner of the world affectionately known as my Hola Mi Amor! blog. Don’t know Spanish? Well here I’ll give you the opportunity to not just explore love, but a little Spanish as well. I am a lover of LOVE. I can’t wait to share my love journeys with you!
Hola Mi Amor! 
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