I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with loving kindness.
Jeremiah 31:3
A picture really can communicate more than words. Something about seeing my littlest girl act out her love makes it real, concrete, substantial. As many parents do, we've modified our "I Love You" motions into a game. Once Carynne starts, I respond with a like pattern adding two fingers at the end (I love you too).
She subsequently holds up three fingers and on we go until we run out of fingers. One day in an attempt to trump me with the volume of her love she held up two zeroes followed by a one (her way of saying 100). My insides melted with the warmth of her love.
Just like Carynne, my love is made real, concrete, substantial when I act it out.
When I'm tired at the end of a long day, do I love 0-0-1 or 1-0-0?
When I'm mired down in the endless jobs of cooking, straightening and washing, do I love 0-0-1 or 1-0-0?
I want to love my family with abundance. Abundance is supplied from the One who loves me first and most. Abundance is given one day at a time. Abundance spills from His heart into mine. Abundance from the One whose love can not be numbered.
