Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Love All You Can

The last school program Tevin fully participated in had a fifty's theme. His class sung the theme song from Happy Days. One of the lines from the song says, "I'm gonna love her all I can." Another thing Tevin would ask us, as he was losing his abilities, is "Are you loving all you can?"

This was yet another awesome move of God. God's greatest commandment is that we love him and each other. Just imagine how emotions flared in our family as we all dealt with Tevin's illness in our various ways. However, it was extremely hard to stay angry with each other or be depressed when the person at the center of the drama is saying, "Love all you can."

We must continue to love and love in spite of. We can be really rude, mean, and cruel to one another. We are charged to love no matter what. Sometimes we have to put aside the things that are displeasing to us or uneasy, because in spite of it all God still requires us to love Him and one another.

"And abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love." I Corinthians 13:13

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  1. BeckyJuly 27, 2010 at 10:13 AM

    Wow! I needed to hear that. It's humbling that a child with a debilitating disease can teach us so many lessons!

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  2. tjordanJuly 27, 2010 at 10:59 AM

    It is absolutely amazing. Jill Dyson, the songwriter, shared this story with a songwriter friend from Colorado. He wrote a song called "Love All You Can." That was the song that Jill sang last night at Hope. It was beautiful. She plans to record both songs, "All I Know" and "Love All You Can" on CD. I can't wait!

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