It has been quite awhile since I have posted. It is this post that has rendered me frozen, I have been wanting to share this since last fall, and finally I am sitting down to write this on a cool Saturday morning as the rest of the family is still asleep. Have you ever had a moment, interaction or a song that has penetrated your heart and left you different? Last fall, after dropping Raymond off at school one morning, I had the radio tuned to Air1, a Christian station I love. As I was making a U-turn to go home, a song came on that I have heard before, but this morning, the song went straight into my heart. The words came over me….”So let my life be the proof, the proof of Your Love. Let my love look like You, and what You’re made of. How you lived, how You died…Love Is Sacrifice.” As the song was playing I was overcome with tears, but not sad tears. I was crying as a picture of our boys together came into my mind. I see God's love through Raymond's eyes all the time. But it was our son Roman that made my heart warm that morning. It was October and so we were busy with Lil Roman's football season and Raymond’s adaptive sports league. The League of Dreams was in the middle of it’s basketball season. Roman and Raymond are very close in age, but very different in abilities. But Lil’ Roman has always stepped up to help his brother play sports through the League of Dreams as his “Angel” since he was 9 years old. As the song continued and I was wiping away the tears, I was picturing Roman, hand-over-hand guiding Raymond to the basketball hoop to score, to give Raymond the chance for normalcy and to be able to play sports like other kids. And Roman has given so many Sunday afternoons for Raymond. The love between them, Roman helping Raymond, and the smile from Raymond back to Roman, that was pure love, unconditional love, that was a display of God’s love.
Love is beautiful, love is all around us, and love is to be shared.
Our days are far from perfect, we have struggles, frustrations, daily stuff that gets overwhelming, we don’t always get along. I know I often stumble and fall. But to quote the song again….”When it’s all said and done, When we sing our final song, Only love remains.”
I truly hope your day is filled with love today. I have attached a few short videos of Roman helping Raymond in the League of Dreams this past basketball and baseball season. It is now June 2013 and Raymond is playing in the first ever season of Bowling with the league, so I attached a picture of that too. But I also am including a link to the video for the song that still goes straight to my heart, it is one of my favorites…..For King and Country – The Proof Of Your Love. Sorry to overwhelm you with so many attachments, but I hope you have time to enjoy the song today also, maybe it will penetrate your heart too.
Proof of Your Love Official Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-2dKOfbC9c
Let our lives be the proof of His Love!
1 Corinthians 13:1-7
