How Deep Is Your LOVE?

At the early age of 7 years my parents introduced me to travel, and it was customary as a family we would take a vacation abroad once every other year. I remember this one year when I was 15 or 16 years old, Christmas was drawing nigh and my parents decided they were going to make a trip to Venezuela to do some shopping and they were taking me and leaving my older siblings at home.

Of course I felt so privileged to be just me with my parents, but then I found out they needed the extra luggage to bring back. I told myself hey, look on the bright side they still chose me. :-)

On arriving we stayed at a hotel, in Caracas, which coincidentally was next door to the Catholic archbishop's residence in Venezuela. My parents hired two young college students to be our interpreters and tour guides. The two young students, were very attractive Spanish men who would meet us in the morning in front of the hotel and take us around. My mom during her excursions would go for the practical stuff and my dad veered off for the electronics and car stuff. When my parents got separated I stayed with my mother, and would coax her into buying me a dress. The car stuff and electronics was not that enticing, but occasionally I would go off with my dad, because I knew I was his favorite, he was a lot of fun to be around, and he had the heart of the oldest kid I knew. ;-).

During the experience every now and then one of the guys every time my mother walked away in a flurry, he would tell me how beautiful I was and how much he wanted to Kiss my beautiful lips. At first I laughed it off. I thought how flattering, but he persisted, and every day that went on his persistence escalated to the point I went to a ladies bathroom turned around and there he was begging me to kiss him. I told him he was crazy and ran out of the bathroom. Then later that day he went up to my mother and asked her permission to kiss me, and my mother laughed.

While my parents were asleep, that night I lay in the hotel room , exhausted, but wide awake thinking of the events of the past few days, and how could a young man be so driven by his lust. While laying there and looking up at the ceiling I asked the most innocent question with tears in my eyes. "I said, "Jesus, Do you Love Me?" Not too long after I began to get drowsy and remembered being in a place of awake and sleep when I heard a voice say to me "This much" and then I felt my heart began to fill with a feeling that was indescribable and it kept filling and filling and expanding in my chest to the point I thought I was getting a heart attack in my sleep. I fought my mind to wake up while screaming for my mother and when I thought this is it I am going to die I woke up yelling "Mummy!!!!" I looked around the room and there were my parents still sleeping, I said to myself, I was never going to ask that question again and was afraid to close my eyes. The next morning I asked my mom if she heard me scream for her and she said "No". I told her what had happened and she dismissed it as just a dream, but as an adult, and after experiencing God's Love, I look back and know what ever that experience was, it was not just a DREAM.

In palm 103 vs 11, 17 I read

For as high as the Heavens are Above the Earth,

so great is God's Love, for those who fear Him

But from everlasting to everlasting

the Lord's Love is with those who

FEAR HIM

Jesus showed me a drop of his Love that night, so my question to you is? Who are you? and

"How Deep is your Love?"

Is it my lips, my eyes, hair, feet, perfect teeth, feminine curves, clothes, intellect, car, house, are you lonely, need a mother to take care of you, is it my potential, or your need to satisfy your sexual desires? And when it all fades are you going to still Love ME?

OR

Is it my love for God, my Love for you, my kindness, faithfulness, compassion, gentleness, patience, generosity, friendship, the way I make you laugh and cry, the truth I am not afraid to tell you?

"How Deep, how far, how wide and how high is your Love?"

Can you cherish me ???

How Deep is your Love?