Just Love

Today, I just love.....

I just love the man God gave me to share life with.

I just love the three amazing children God has blessed us with. They are my miracles and I treasure them.

I just love an old ornery dog who does a lot of crazy and annoying things that can end up costing us thousands of dollars (well, that part I don't love!)

I just love the Pasta Rambo leftovers I'm enjoying right now from Carrabba's last night.

I just love that the boys are all off on their way to the mountains to have a treasured day of sledding fun together.

I just loved watching the Bug fall asleep peacefully in her crib last night. She is beautiful beyond words and I love her fiercely.

I just love a God who can hold us through our hurts and knows our pain, yet has bigger joys planned for us than we can ever imagine when we walk to the other side with Him.

I just love the word "love." I know lots of people think it's overused and diminished when we use it to describe our children and pasta in the same post. But I think it's an amazingly fine word. What other word can you use to describe the joys from simple things like pasta leftovers to the very nature of God himself? Only "love." Only "love" can encompass such a multitude of rich and deep and powerful and "this just makes me smile" feelings. And this is my goal in life--to just love.