{"id":584,"date":"2019-04-13T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/?p=584"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:08:43","slug":"love-is-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Love Is the Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\" src=\"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/m4a\/Journey%20Notes%2039%20Love%20Is%20the%20Journey%20Accomp.m4a\"     controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:,audioHeight:\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<p>The Bible is first and foremost a love story.\u00a0 God loved creation.\u00a0 He blessed the first marriage in history.\u00a0 He was more than a match maker; He was the match creator!\u00a0 He also blessed the bonds of friendship, and recognized Abraham as His friend.\u00a0 When Jesus wept over Lazarus, the Jews saw the Lord&#8217;s deep love for His friend.\u00a0 In his letters John the apostle instructs us about love, not that we loved God, but God loved us and sent Jesus to be our atonement (1 John 4:10).\u00a0 The love story continues through the closing of the book of Revelation as the Spirit and the Bride invite all to take the water of life.<\/p>\n<p>With the theme of love running as a continuous thread from cover to cover in the world&#8217;s all time number one best seller, it should come as no surprise that Jesus performed his first recorded miracle at the wedding in Cana.\u00a0 It was a celebration of love.\u00a0 We never learn who was being married, nor does it matter.\u00a0 God is love.\u00a0 God blesses us in love, and God blesses us through love.<\/p>\n<p><em>O Perfect Love<\/em> was written as a wedding hymn by Dorothy B. Gurney especially to fit her sister&#8217;s favorite hymn tune.\u00a0 A short time later the words came to the attention of the royal family.\u00a0 It was sung in the 1889 royal wedding of Princess Louise and the Duke of Fife, using a tune specially commissioned for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Pray these words of love as you continue your pilgrim journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,<br \/>\nlowly we kneel in prayer before thy throne,<br \/>\nthat theirs may be the love which knows no ending,<br \/>\nwhom thou forevermore dost join in one.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect love certainly does transcend human thought, and it is God&#8217;s perfect, transcendent love that we seek on our journey.\u00a0 Know that God loves you perfectly.\u00a0 Seek to love Him perfectly, and to be a reflection of God&#8217;s perfect love for everyone you see today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"O Perfect Love (United Methodist Hymnal #645)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/em9o9sN0PNA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Follow the Path!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><em><strong>CARadke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[Use with <em>Celebration of Love<\/em>, day 39 of <a title=\"Order your copy of A Labyrinth Pilgrimage today!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/3366946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>A Labyrinth Pilgrimage<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible is first and foremost a love story.\u00a0 God loved creation.\u00a0 He blessed the first marriage in history.\u00a0 He was more than a match maker; He was the match creator!\u00a0 He also blessed the bonds of friendship, and recognized &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/?p=584\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-about-the-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}