Today, my girlfriend and I are celebrating our 14th
monthsary.
Fantastic 1 year and 2 months!
Some of you might say, “Oh wala yan! Kami 3 years na.” Or “Kami 7 years
na.” Or “Simula high school, kami na. Hanggang ngayon na nagtatrabaho na, kami
pa din.”
I salute you. I admire you. You’re such an inspiration.
But my story is different. Can I share it with you?
Back when I was a child, I was attracted to only one person in our
school. She was good looking and cute. And I was not. (Now, I understand you if
you won’t agree with me.)
I was very thin that if I was assigned to tie the ropes of the flag
after our flag ceremony, all the students standing and lined-up were astonished
of what they perceived as David Copperfield’s magic trick. Everytime I would stand
sideways at the back of the flag pole, I was so thin I would vanish into thin
air.
Then I became a teen ager and my attraction (we called it “crush”) to
girls would increase in number but my self-confidence does not.
In college? Same thing. Some people say, “hanggang tingin ka nalang.”
And they were right.
But I discovered one valuable truth.
In my later years in College, I happen to have attended a prayer
meeting called The Feast. The experience was so amazing that I kept attending
almost every week.
I experienced the Love of God.
Fast forward, I met this lovely woman who is my co-celebrant today.
How did that happen? What
changed? How can someone like me who was
not cute (deliberately italicized the word “was”) can have a gorgeous, wonderful,
fantastic, lovely girlfriend?
In 1 John 4:19, it says “We love
because He first loved us.”
I began to receive the love of God. And because God loves me, I began
to love myself more. And I was able to share that love with my girlfriend until
today.
The good news is, God never ceases to love me. He never ceases to love you.
Friends, receive the love of God.
