Falling in Love with Jesus (rambling...)

Man!  I just love Him.  I was talking my kids on the way home one night.  More like lecturing, actually.  I didn't mean to, but it just seemed like I needed to share what was on my heart.  At the time, my love for Jesus ran so deep (it still does!) and I think it was hard for them to understand why I would do some of the things I would do.

What happened in my life, before coming to know Jesus personally - like, more than just a "going to church" kind of knowing Him - was crazy.  I was doing so many thing that were just... wrong.  Not because someone said it was wrong, but because I knew in my heart that it wasn't good for me.  Or for anyone else, for that matter.  I wasn't proud of the things I was doing.  (that's your first clue, btw) 
 
Then I prayed in a little bitty church, with my sister by my side, and tears running down my cheeks, to receive His gift of grace.  I gotta' tell ya... I was different.  He made me different... from that moment on.  I was absolutely, 100 percent in love with Jesus Christ.  And it didn't stop there.  Many things happened over the next few months, and even years... things that only He could help me get through.  Things that only He could set right again.  Oh!  And there was so much buried from the past.  Stuff that I really needed to deal with, and let go of.  I tell ya', if I'm not more in love with Him today than I was in the beginning, then I've missed the whole point.  Do you ever feel that way?  Like you're missing something?  I pray that my kids... and that most of you... won't have to go through the worst of life before they fall head over heels in love with Jesus.  Do it now!  Make the rest of your life count for Him.  And if you don't understand what I'm talking about, that's ok.  Keep seeking.  Keep knocking.  Keep asking.  He's dying to show you His love!!!