Spoonful of Imagination

Add it to a Family for Something Beautiful

  • Home
  • Our Family
    • Our Home
  • Courses
  • Shop
  • Contact

Love is Patient

September 4, 2014 By Erica Deuel 2 Comments

Love is complex. In my 31 years on the earth, I feel like I am still trying to figure it out.

Do you understand love?

How do you feel loved?

Love is Patient PrintWe can all experience love in different ways. Gifts, actions, words, and time are a few ways we can feel love.

What is true of love? I turn to 1 Corinthians 13 to find the answer.

You probably have heard it a few times at weddings. It is one of the bible’s most famous passages, and for good reason… It gives a beautiful definition for the word Love.

sibling_loveLove is patient. Love is kind. Are the first two things we hear about love in this passage.

It wasn’t until our foster son came to live with us that I started to really break down this verse to how I live my life now.

As I realized we couldn’t expect changes and behaviors from our foster son (that we had been working on from birth with our children), I found myself learning to live love is patient. As we tried to teach our foster son, what love is by our actions and words we started using a simple parenting method based off this verse.

What is love? Love is patient. Love is kind.

This phrase became a constant in and around our house. We said it. We believed it. We held on to it.

love_is_patient_reminderI wanted to create some kind of reminder for this phrase. We knew it held a powerful message. One that has been used largely in shaping our lives. And to be honest, is still shaping our lives as we are trying to be patient with the sale of our house.

love_is_patientThis message needs to be heard from the tree tops. We all need to be reminded to truly live love.

With this thought in mind, I found myself designing t-shirts.

I love these shirts. We worked hard to find a shirt that was soft, vintage like. We were successful with the adults. It has that favorite shirt feel from the very start. The design has been sublimated into the shirt, so you don’t feel it by touch. The kids shirt is a more standard 50/50 shirt, but I tell you when I see it on one of my kids….it is like a walking billboard or a memo note on your frig that brings a world of perspective in my impatient moments.

love_is_patient_shirtI don’t know about you but I need all the reminders I can get. I am one call away from my realtor asking me to leave the house (after we just started school) for a house showing, from losing my cool. Patience is not naturally in my blood, yet I desperately want to love well.

I will continue to strive for a life bigger than me and to love bigger than me….as I work on patience with my here and now.

If you too need this reminder, you can purchase this design as a 4″ x 6″ print, a magnet, or preorder your shirt.

Thanks for being in this journey with us!

signature

 

Share this:

  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: My Heart Tagged With: Love, patient, print, shirt

Trackbacks

  1. Easy Carpet Bag Tutorial - Spoonful of Imagination says:
    September 8, 2014 at 7:44 am

    […] Reagan just the cutest? She wanted to help me model the bag (and yes we are still wearing our Love is Patient Shirts). I wasn’t planning on using these pictures,but they were too cute not to […]

    Reply
  2. Love is Patient (shirts & a coupon code) - Spoonful of Imagination says:
    September 29, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    […] pictures in our first post are from my talented sister-in-law. Most pictures since then have been taken by my seven-year old […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
YouTube-Channel
Erica Deuel

Subscribe for Weekly Updates!




Most Popular Posts

Painting Flower Pot Party Tips
Repurpose Old Kitchen Chairs
The Encanto, Madrigal's House Craft For Kids
DIY King Size Rag Quilt {Repost}
Cheap lamp to Industrial Beauty
Chiffon Flower Tutorial
DIY Burlap Lamp Shade
DIY {easy} Burlap Wreath
DIY Outdoor Checker Board
DIY Bookends (what you can make for being a hoarder)

Categories

  • All About the Kids
  • art journal
  • Blogging
  • Christmas
  • Craft Projects
  • Dancing Zebras
  • DIY
  • Eddy's postcards
  • Embroidery Journal
  • Family
  • Featured
  • Foster Care
  • Giveaways
  • Guest Posts
  • Home
  • Homeschooling
  • Kid Activities
  • Kid Craft
  • My Heart
  • Our Outings
  • Project Spotlight
  • Send Out Love
  • Shop
  • Sponsored Posts
  • Spoonful Lab
  • Spoonful Tribe
  • Tips + Tricks
  • Traveling
  • Uncategorized
  • Vlog

Favorite Categories

Subscribe for Weekly Updates!

Favorite Categories

© 2023 Spoonful of Imagination, Inc.