floored by her powerful love

She steps out of her car with her arms holding as many things as she can grasp. The girl taps her door shut with her foot, and almost looses her balance, but catches herself and heads toward the church door. As she reaches the steps a familiar car drives past. She smiles and a loud gasp exits her lungs. "Flo is here!!!" Her cousin had told her that she wasn't going to come down to Indianapolis this weekend, but for whatever reason she had come, and Rebekah was so excited. She quickly set down her many belongings, and ran towards her beloved cousin. The intense friendship that exists between the girls accounts for the eagerness to embrace one another and catch up on all that God has done in thier lives. Not only are Flo and Rebekah cousins, they are dear life-long friends. The girls spend hours on the phone chatting about anything and everything. They hold each other accountable to the commitments and goals they have, and the girls pray for each other. God has graciously blessed them with this kind of precious relationship, and living more than a hour away means that when they see each other, they run, and smile and scream "I love you. I missed you. How are you?!"
As they ran to each other’s arms somehow they missed, and Rebekah was knocked over, or better put, floored by Flo's powerful love.
See, the girls love each other so much, and their hearts are so closely knit, that sometimes the only appropriate response is to be floored by the love of God bestowed on them. Sometimes, it's painful, as Rebekah is so acutely aware, but it's a blessing, and blessing that Rebekah will be thankful for through all eternity. Not everyone has a cousin that is four days, twenty hours and thirty minutes older than them. What's more, a girl who loves God so much that talking with her brings one that much closer to God Himself. Rebekah, is thankfully floored by the blessing and the power of love.

"Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth."
I John 3:18

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear... We love because He first loved us."
I John 4:18-19