Love His Socks Off

So quick update: my friend and I found an apartment and are moved in finally! I'm getting my cat back Saturday, which will be a total of 2 cats, a kitten, a lizard, and a hamster in the apartment. And there's been talk of getting a turtle. We're going to charge admission to come see the animals eventually ;) My brother is going to be in Japan by the end of the week, I'm nervous and excited for him all at once. And that's about all the updates I have for now, life has slowed down quite a bit which I'm happy about :)

We still have overtime at work which means I've still got hours to think about random things. The other day I started thinking about how I know I really love my boyfriend. I'm not going where you probably think I'm going, I'm not talking about all the little random things I like about him. I mean actual love. Agape love. For those of you who don't know Greek, agape love is the purest form of love, the form of love God has for each of us. I got to thinking that if love, especially agape love, started with God it has to be like God. So what is God like?

He's unconditional, unchanging, forgiving, loyal, kind, gracious. He's a lot of other things, but I'll leave it at that for now. For those curious, yes I do love my boyfriend, it wasn't that I doubted it, it was more or less that it crossed my mind so I thought about it type thing. My point with this post though isn't to talk about my love life. Well, not exactly anyway. It's to focus on the fact that true love, agape love, is unconditional.

There are certain people that I don't get along with very well, or that my relationship with them is very strained, and sometimes they do things that really upset me. That happened the other day with one of those people, and I was so upset about what had happened that I decided after a certain day I was going to completely block that person out of my life. I've tried fixing our relationship but that person either doesn't acknowledge it or denies it, and then sits there and does nothing to fix it and thinks it's perfectly fine. This particular person is one that I really shouldn't just give up on or I would have by now, because normally I cut people like that out of my life as quick as possible. When I was thinking about all the love stuff the other day at work, this person randomly popped into my head, and I was reminded that unconditional means just that, unconditional. It doesn't matter what the person does, I don't necessarily have to like or respect them, but I have to love them. And that means I can't give up on them no matter how much i may want to. It wasn't a very thrilling thought at the time, and it still isn't to be honest, because I know it's a long, tiring, and frustrating road ahead of me, but I'm not going to give up on that person. I had a boss one time that used to tell me to "bless his socks off," about certain people that were hard to love. I'm going to amend that just a little and say, about that person, that i'm going to "love his socks off."

And now...bed time :) night world!