God is Love

There are so many things that I need to work on. Not just things to make me a better person, things to help me love myself. Though the past couple of days have been absolutely fantastic, I have also learned quite a bit about myself. Here are some things that I have learned:

• I had never truly thought about love, and how much of an impact it has had on my life.
• Intimacy with God is so much more than "quiet time"; it is an everyday, all day commitment.
• I will never really be ready to be in a relationship.
• I have, in fact, no matter how much I have denied it, for the past few years, depended on being in a relationship with a boy to make me happy.
• I do not need to be in a relationship with a boy to make me happy. I need to be in an intimate, personal, relationship with God. --That makes me happy.
• I have this mindset that I can never be anything more than what I already am, unless I learn to love who I already am. Only then, will I be able to carry on, learn more, and become more; otherwise, I feel incomplete.
• For the longest time, I have told people to "prove me wrong", when really, I could do that myself!
• I think about situations too much. 
• Sometimes I care too much; I'm not sure yet if that's a bad thing.
• When I say "It's whatever." I usually mean, "It's hurting me inside. I just don't want to seem weak."
• When I focus on strengthening my relationship with God, there is almost no way for me to think about the negative situations in my life.

God has shown me so many different things about Him, myself, and my life. I am amazed at how little I know about myself, and how much God knows about me!! Everyday, He reveals a little more about who He wants me to be, and everyday, I learn a little bit more about how I can become who He wants me to be. I will say, without hesitation, God is love.