it woke me up

I've had plenty of brainstorming sessions while laying in bed, and I've had so many different thoughts come and go but never had I ever had anything wake me from that twilight feeling and drive me to type before.

God is good.

So what drove me out of my bed at midnight?

Love.

That's it.

Love.

Every kind of love. I love my family as I should and I love my community but I should love my community like I love my family because we are family, we are all God's children and that makes us family. We're in this together, as a family.

There's been this idea rolling around in my head for years. It originally came to me after seeing Godspell at a local high school. That very next day, in 12 hours I penned what would be my first and last musical. I wrote a musical based on Michael W. Smith's music called 'A Love Like No Other'.

It told the tale of love in different stages, angles and in the end, the everlasting, healing, perfect love of God. Now, this was all done with Mr. Smith's music as a backdrop, which I sincerely apologize for right this moment for that lapse of judgment. It's not because his music couldn't handle being a musical production, it was just that I was highly unqualified to write it.

This suddenly ties in to that thought: love. Why do we do the things we do? Love. Jesus died for us and it was because God loved us so much He hung His own Son on a cross from us.

I'm underselling this statement, mainly because I'm half asleep, but we are built to love. Love one another, love our neighbors, love our God, love our enemies. Love. We are told to love, and by doing the things we love, for other people we love, it's a whole circle of "Kum-bi-ya" that would make the normal person sick but we're not normal, we're God's people who have a higher calling than normalcy. We have a calling to love without motive, without agenda, without love or anything in return.

We're to love each other more than we love ourselves, and in that, Rob Bell I'm sorry to you now: and in that, love wins.

I see it now and I'm not sure why other than my own ignorance of those around me whom I think I can't love or I shouldn't love that kept me ignorant of it all before but it's there now: love.

I think this midnight sermon idea is neat, maybe tomorrow night I'll write the one that's been brewing called "to those of the least..."

Goodnight and God Bless,
Jesse