Love Instructions

How to Love Me

Dear Reader,

How are you doing today? Have you ever thought about how you want to be loved? Or do you daydream occasionally (or not at all) about romance and the feeling of love?

This week’s piece is titled “Love Instructions.” Its title is self-explanatory. This piece welcomes you wherever you are in your thinking of romance, offering a perspective on how to view love through the lens of the relationships already around us.

Are you ready? Let’s begin

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Love Instructions

I do not ask for much:
only that you love me,
not with a ravenous desire
where my lungs find it hard to breathe 
and my stomach becomes a cocoon
for all things that flutter with beauty.

Love me with the love of a sister
who would do anything to hear you laugh.
Love me with the tenacity, stubbornness
and everything between of a brother
who refuses to award mocking rights to anyone else.
Love me with the love of a friend, 
the stranger whose path is forever crossed with yours.
Generations coming will tell stories of our love.
But first,
love me with a love from Love Himself,
the kind they call Agape.
Let your love for me be laced with Him.
Out of the abundance of your love for Him,
serenade me.
There is nothing I desire more from you;
for this is how to love me

Clinging onto the last days of summer with this picture✨

I love love. This is one of the poems I consider sweet because it echoes my heart after searching for love in all the wrong places. It also reminds me of what my standard should be in considering love. It is funny as I write this, I feel like this piece is actually incomplete yunno? So who knows in future publications I might revisit this. Either way, I hope this encourages you to remember that you are loved by Love Himself. I also pray this motivates you to look out for love in the little ways it shows up in the relationships around you.

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Thank you so much for reading this week’s reflection, albeit short and sweet. I’ll be back soon with another piece, God-willing.

Until then,

Shalom✨

“Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
    your faithfulness to the clouds.” Psalm 36:5 ESV"