Love Covers

Woot woot! February is our first month with guest writers every 2nd and 4th week... 📝🥁🥁🥁

Please welcome the beautiful Tamara Carpenter! Tamara is currently a Director of Customer Success for Salesforce, Inc. She resides in Carmel, IN with her husband, Ron, and 3 boys aged 11, 7, and 7. In her spare time she enjoys reading, traveling with friends and family, and writing. ❤️

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Love Covers...

When we are hurt by someone we love, sometimes our first instinct is to withhold love from them. Withholding love in reaction to an offense or sin serves as a form of punishment, retaliation, or self-preservation. Withholding love may also be an attempt to control or manipulate. Regardless of how “right” it feels in the moment, withholding love is learned behavior that won’t yield a positive outcome. It only leads to distance, broken trust, and failed relationships. 

Peter reminds us in 1 Peter 4:8 to “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins”. While your instinctive reaction is to withhold love, the truly courageous and productive response is to love MORE!  Choosing to love, overlooking faults or offenses that might otherwise cause division is an essential ingredient in healthy relationships. Rather than retreating, love becomes the bridge to healing and repairing the damaged relationship. Choosing to love someone in spite of hurt or an offense covers their sin, just as God’s never ending and unconditional love covers yours.