I love a lot of people.
I love my parents with a love born out of gratitude and blood. I love my siblings with a love born of common roots and shared experiences. I love friends with a love born of mutual interests and indebtedness for being chosen.
I love grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. I love nieces and nephews, and children I love like nieces and nephews. I love coworkers and women in my Bible study.
I have loved doctors and nurses, teachers and bus drivers. I have loved farmers and factory workers, writers and musicians. I have loved more than one painter, and even a poet or two.
I have loved strangers and enemies, though not with my own love.
But I have never loved a husband.
Today, however, Amy has shown me the true love of a husband, the true love for a husband.
Someday, I might love a husband better because of her words.
Join me for regular jaunts around The High Calling network, randomly visiting fellow bloggers, soaking up their words and ideas, and then coming back here to write about them from my perspective. This is what The High Calling network is all about, after all.
Our site is about casting a vision that is clear enough and inspiring enough that our readers can run with it on their own sites. We then spend the majority of our editorial time listening to them on their sites and helping them shine as writers. We believe in the power of the laity so much that we are relying on them and their audiences to help spread the vision that has been given to us. – Marcus Goodyear, senior editor, thehighcalling.org (from “The Challenge, Strategy, and Execution of Combining Web Properties” by Dan King on churchcrunch.com)
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Charity, this is brilliant! I love the Hobbit reference. Every good thing Tolkein is worth doing. But I also love the organic nature of this.
Thank you so much for helping us spread the love and encouragement.
You are so creative. I love the button too! 🙂
Cool idea, Charity.
I just want to echo what so many of the others are saying here… I just love that you’re doing this! Beautiful, amazing, totally awesome dude!
How awesome is that!! I look forward to reading your thoughts. This is what I love about blogging (especially with the high calling crew)- it’s like carrying on a whole bunch of really good conversations.
Oh wow – how fun! This could be the beginning of something very good!
Thanks,everyone. I am looking forward to all of the amazing writers and people I will find as I intentionally set out to tour the network.
I also was deeply moved by Amy’s poem, that her husband loves her this way, inspires this love in her.
I love this idea~thanks so much for coming up with it and following through. I can’t wait to see all the relationships that develop. 🙂
Charity,
What a gift you are! Ann is so right: you love very well. Your way of loving spills over into the spaces you visit, this space you keep. Thank you so much for the ways you give–to the network of HighCalling and to all those whose lives you touch.
I’m going to read Amy’s post now. Love to you.
Charity…what a great idea. speaking well of others is the most God-honoring thing we can….
So glad you are doing this
Amy had a great post – thanks for the link!
Charity, this is magnificent. I have been there to Amy’s post and back again to yours, and I’m blessed by you both.
I think you love so very well, looking out for the interests of others, not just your own. You empty yourself for others, to borrow your word-of-the-year, and I think that’s what Amy’s husband tried to get through to her, and what her poem tells today.
I do hope some man will soon be able to pour love into your life, and receive your outpouring of love.
what a great idea, there and back again! love it! and thank you so much charity for including me. what an awesome community we have at high calling. thanks again, have a wonderful weekend.