You Don't Know What Love Is

When we went to see my Parents and Grandparents in Ohio last time my Grandma told me: "You don't know what love is until you have children. You thought you knew, but you didn't"..

I agree with her on that, and I have been thinking about it a lot since then. 

I love T and K more than I could ever have imagined. 

I loved them before they were born

I loved them before they could smile

I loved them before they could walk 

I loved them before they could talk

And I will love them; they do not have to do anything to make me love them, because I love them already. They cannot do anything to make me not love them, I always will.

God loves us, He knew and loved us before we were conceived

He knew and loved us before we were born

He knew and loved us before we were old enough to sin

 He knew us and loved us when we sinned for the first time, 

And He will know and love us when we sin our last time

He knows us from the inside out.

He doesn't know us the way our family, friends, and neighbors know us, He knows us as we really are.

Every thought, every motive, every sin.

He loves us from the inside out.
He doesn't love us the way out family, friends, and neighbors love us, He loves us as we really are.
He loves us through every thought, every motive, every sin.

He loved us enough to send His Son to live and die here on this earth. He loves us because we are His creation. He loves us and wants us to be His sons and daughters.

 I guess

 I still don't know

 much about love.

I can only strive to be like Jesus as I see and understand Him now, but when I see Him as He truly I will be able to love so much more.

Although I love my children, I don't always remember and act like I do..
I am not a perfect mother, I mess up all the time. 
My only hope is that in some small way I can show them God's love.
If I can direct their little eyes to God, I will be happy.

 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
1 John 3:2

 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 
1 Corinthians 13:12

 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:18