A Study on Love: Beyond Love

May 3rd, 2006

A Study on Love: Beyond Love

I am really not sure how good this one is going to be… my head is mush. My heart is there… but my head is away in “la-la-land.” I’m on two types of pain medication and I wonder, is it worth taking away the pain in putting myself in place to where I can’t think clearly and can’t function? I mean, I can’t function with the pain either, but I could function better with the pain, I guess. I don’t know. I took me 10 minutes just to write this far. Wow. Tomorrow, for the guys midweek, we are doing this mini-seminar sort-of-thing, and I can’t even drive… so, if someone is willing to help a brother out… and the spirit is willing to help me function with the word in my mouth, then let this mini-seminar work! I did get news today on my leg. It appears that I have two vertebrae that, as I understand it, are crushed and a disk is bulging and that is the cause of my pain. That is the word from the nurse. The doctor has yet to revue the MRI as of yet. I still have the lumbar puncture on the docket for Friday but that may be cancelled on Friday morning when the Doctor revues the MRI. So please be praying about that.

Now, being that I cannot focus on much right now, as I haven’t been able to focus on much today… my thoughts have been scattered really, I did come across one verse that brightened my heart.

1st Thessalonians 3:12
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

Overflow:
perisseuō
per-is-syoo'-o
From G4053; to superabound (in quantity or quality), be in excess, be superfluous; also (transitively) to cause to superabound or excel: - (make, more) abound, (have, have more) abundance, (be more) abundant, be the better, enough and to spare, exceed, excel, increase, be left, redound, remain (over and above).

It excites me to look at the word overflow. I don’t know why, it just does. I mean, look at it: excel, abundance, cause to superabound… in this word document, it gives that squiggly red line that means it’s not a word which is even cooler… be superfluous… I don’t even know what that means! And that means DICTIONARY!

Superfluous (adj.):

1. Being beyond what is required or sufficient.

Superabound (verb):

1. To be unusually or excessively abundant.

Superabound is an actual word, according to dictionary.com and the definition is above, so HAH! So, even though this is but a short little quite time in my little fuzzy headed land (does this even make sense?), I do understand that I need to be excessively abundant and beyond sufficient in giving love. Do I love my job? Am I beyond sufficient in my job? Do I love my wife? Does my love excel with her? Wow! CRAZY questions! Do I give SSSOOO much love to people, that they have to put some aside for later, that they have some to spare, like that extra tire in the trunk? What is that tire for anyway? Oh, it’s a spare… anyway… I’m ready to retire. Why, I have a spare… Johnny Out.