Love = Action

Have you seen them before? They sort of walk along shuffling their feet. Sometimes their backs are a little bent over from the weight of the world sitting on their shoulders for so many years. They have so many laugh lines on their face that you can just imagine all the funny things they have seen, heard and said over the years. I have seen a few with canes, some wearing panty hose a/k/a knee highs as socks. Their shoes velcro, their hats have mesh backings. Their belts are always twisted a little to the left or the right and they have so much change in their pockets that you can hear them coming.

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Oh how I love elderly people. I love to listen to them talk. I love to ask for advice. I love to laugh with them, cut up with them, cry with them, listen to them pray (this is my favorite), share my thoughts, learn, try to imagine a day gone by.

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But my all time favorite thing to do is sit and watch an elderly couple. Oh, they are my favorite! To see that sweet woman wap her husband with her umbrella cracks me up. To see those old men roll their eyes after their wife turns around and politely say "Yes Dear!" To watch them walk hand in hand. To watch them worship together in a way that I don't even understand yet.

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Although I enjoy all of those things my favorite thing is when that sweet husband bends over, picks his wife's purse up off the floor and quietly slips it onto his arm. He stands there beaming with pride it seems like because he is "helping" the love of his life. Many men may think they are too manly to hold their wife's purse. I honestly think many men think they will get cooties from even touching their wife's purse...(heehee). But what I see watching that sweet precious man is not weakness I see love!

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See, love is not a feeling...love is an action. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16. He loved us so much that he gave his Son! I can't even begin to fathom that sort of love. What if someone told you right now that your child had to be killed in order to save the world. Would you do it? Could you do it? God did it and didn't even think about it! He just bent over, picked up the purse that was sitting right there and slid it onto his arm.