Love Does...

Love washes the dishes,

many times over,

assuming responsibility

for the hearth and home

God gave her.

Love goes the second mile

in making sure needs are met

when Mama is tired,

or because older sister has

Lyme disease and

cannot fill her role

like she once did,

or would if she could.

Love sweeps off screens 

(without a grumble)

after she had helped to
wash them a few hours
earlier, leaving them
drying in the sun,
only to find them
 sprinkled with

 hay dust

(from her Farmer daddy's

love gift to her mama last week),

that is also wafting thru the air

(all our joy is touched with pain!)

;-)

Love notices the floors that

need to be swept,

and takes it upon herself to do it

quietly without being told.

Love notices the stack of

dresses that need mended,

collected over the years

of sewing mistakes, or

outgrown clothes that never made it to the top of the pile

(CAM could use those, she said).

Love rips apart a white dress that has lain for years,

waiting to be resewn because the pattern wasn't right.

(I'll do that for you, Mama, she said. 

And I'll even sew it for you, too.)

Love makes pancakes 

on a rainy evening,

when it seems all the 

women of the household

are craving them.

(the guys are equally

grateful, too).

Love cleans up the dishes

made from said

cooking endeavors.

Love holds babies at church,

and talks to the little children.

Love kindly reaches out
to those in her life
that treat her less than kindly
and gently smooths the
relationship ripples
that Satan brings her way.

Love cares about knowing God

and making Him known

to those He brings her way.

Love willingly peels peaches

when she would rather 

have been doing other things.

And love deep cleans,

because her Mama asked her to

even tho it looks much more

glamorous to be baking.

And about baking...

love bakes because she

loves her family

(and sugar, too! :/)

and stops baking so much 

when her mama says, 

"Slow down please.
Our bodies are important, too,

and we should ration out those
lovely foods you bake!"

Love goes on a Pinterest fast

because she wants to bless her Mama

by not baking so much,

so why not remove 'temptation'

for a while til we adjust?!

Yes, I'm talking about my youngest daughter.

Love does...

and she reflects that love from

Jesus to us very well.
And though she is still growing to maturity
(aren't we all?!),
I am so blessed by the love she has
let Jesus supernatually flow out of
her heart to others.

Love DOES...
And when love does,
there is joy.

When love does,
there is harmony,
and there is rest.

Go love your people today!

"My little children,
let us not love in word,
neither in tongue,
but in deed and in truth."
1 John 3:18