Love First

Lately, God's been showing me many lessons.  Most of the lessons to be learned are about LOVE. I have been realizing more and more how I should treat those who I care for; putting their needs ahead of my own and really showing what love means. Of course I go to I Corinthians 13 for guidance.  I feel He has been calling to me, telling me to put LOVE FIRST.
To simplify, put 
GOD FIRST
OTHERS SECOND
YOURSELF THIRD
~A motto I learned at summer camp long ago, but being a wife and a mom, this becomes so much more to me. 

We usually don't learn lessons the easy way.  Unfortunately we learn the hard way, through difficult circumstances and many tears.
Sometimes we have clear moments where things just fall into place, but most of the time it's in the little details that He shows us whats most important.

I'm no prophet, no counselor, no woman wise beyond her years.
Just a wife, just a mom, just a believer...
but that is all I need to be.
All I really need to know is to put 
LOVE FIRST!
All you need to know is
LOVE FIRST!

I always say that God has a plan for us.
I believe it, I know it, I will try to follow His lead daily, in big details and small.
I don't know what that plan is, but I know...

LOVE FIRST

1 Corinthians 13New International Version (NIV)

13 If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I hope this has blessed you!

Xoxoxo,

Samantha