Love tanks. Everyone has one and everyone’s has a gauge. You can’t see it, it’s not as cut and dry as looking in the dash of you car, but it’s there. And I bet when yours is on E, it feels a lot like undervalue or confusion. But when it’s full, it feels a lot like that first magical bite of your favorite dessert or the satisfaction of accomplishing something big. It’s because you kind of have.
Life isn’t about always doing you, sometimes it’s about keeping watch over the gauges of those we love, really acknowledging when they’re getting low and being insightful to fill where we can without losing ourselves.
One of my best friends and I have it figured out. We don’t need the same type of love to fill our tanks, but we know what each other does need and the longer we’ve stayed friends, the more in tune we are with what that looks like.
So if you like the way someone makes you feel, be sure to dig in and figure out what makes them think of you as the best dessert on the buffet, too. Because there’s nothing sweeter than living a life where people are happy to have you in theirs.…even if all you can make is a little shit pie from a big pile of shit.
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.”
John 15:16-17 NIV
Deeper Than a Puddle 