Tonight I started a study on love. I am using several passages from the Bible as my basis. The main verse I am using is Luke 6:27 which reads:

“But to you are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”

I am wanting to know the meaning of loving those who hate me. I do not have a list of people who hate me. I get along with just about everyone. The thing that gets me is does these command extend out to do good to those are who do not trust me, scared of me, Leary of wanting help, what does this mean.

I am going to try to find and explore all the places where Jesus talks about love and serving and look at them in context with the old testament scriptures they came from. I am not sure what I am looking for except I am wanting to see the heart of Jesus more and more.

Anyone out there know of any good resources for something like this? I want to look at the root words of love used in each passage, but I am not really sure how to start a study like that. My knowledge in these areas is lacking.

Anyone want to start an online study of the passages of love and service and see where it takes us?

It is so amazing how time flies! It just takes off. It has been way to long since I have sat down, slowed down and wrote something.

Last week Texas was one stop thing after another. I got home Sunday night and caught up with stuff on Monday and it was back to work today. The break was great for my head, I can think and I feel clear. I have energy to put behind my ideas and projects both personally and at work.

I have not been good about spending time in the Bible lately and I can feel it. That feeling of wanting more. I need to plop myself down in my reading chair in a bit and just dig in.

Also I have been busily working on my design site. I am going to start freelancing again. I have a large section of the site done and hope to have it all done in a week or two. I am offering a wider variety of services since the last time I did freelance. I have started falling in love with video, never though that was possible. I have always been a lover of still life…photography, graphic design, painting…stuff that speaks without saying anything. There is power in silence and an image. While I will always be a still life person, there is an aspect of video that is powerful. It can tell stories with music and humanness that sometimes is hard to capture.

As always I am just kind of rattling and jumping all over the place. I think my mind goes too fast for my hands. I just get typing and my brain is already of having another adventure.

I guess I should be off on my way.

I am sitting here in the Sacramento airport waiting on my flight to Las Vegas. I love the fact that everyone has wireless now. It helps techno geeks like me stay connected for that much longer.

I woke up this morning with my head stuffed up and a sore throat..nothing like flying with the start of a sinus infection!

I am going to be boarding in about 30 minutes and then I am planning on passing out. There is something about flying that is so relaxing. I am usually out before the plane takes off.

I have a couple of books to keep me company. I brought “God’s Gravity: The upside-down life of selfless faith” by Craig Borase and “Generous Othodoxy” from Brian McLaren. I have read most of Generous Orthodoxy before, but it is one I keep going through slowly.

Well time to pack up and start getting ready to board in a few. I will be in Las Vegas in about an hour and half. I have a small stack of quarters to try my luck and then I am sure I will be sitting down checking my email before the flight takes off and lands tonight at 10:30 central time in Texas.