Hello my dear followers of TLL, we have been MIA for a minute. I hope you are all faring well.
I ask the question above because from different cultures, tradition, religion or what ever the case may be, we all have one common denominator, Love. Why is that? and if that word love exists and is so important that means it came from a source. Do you believe GOD IS LOVE? if so why try to love without Him, if now what do you believe? and is it working for you so far. At least I hope so.
We will not get into a religous debate but here is something I will like to share with you. Please as you read. Imagine yourself not giving but recieving all of these words from someone. Someone you really love and imagine their reaction, how good they feel, knowing that you recieved in appreciation and seeing what it does for you. Now, ask yourself, can you give to that someone in the same measure? with out holding anything. With none the words inbetween such as "But" or "Its different" Just loving.
Now for a disclaimer, I understand some situations are cannot be the same as others. Remember I said someone you love that loves you too. Then Imagine giving that kind of love to someone you do not know, just because. "...if I have the gift of knowlege, all mysteries, speak in tongues of men and angels or have a faith that can move mountains, even give all I have to the poor but have no love, I am nothng. LOVE is patient, kind, is not jealous, does ...not boast, not proud, not rude, not selfish, not easily angered, It holds no record of wrong, does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, hopes, always trusts, always perseveres, Love never fails and these three remain, Faith, Hope and Love and the greatest of these is Love.We will never be perfect in all these things, but the closer to it we get the better our lives and our relationships. A powerful line of poetry from the creator of LOVE.
I ask the question above because from different cultures, tradition, religion or what ever the case may be, we all have one common denominator, Love. Why is that? and if that word love exists and is so important that means it came from a source. Do you believe GOD IS LOVE? if so why try to love without Him, if now what do you believe? and is it working for you so far. At least I hope so.
We will not get into a religous debate but here is something I will like to share with you. Please as you read. Imagine yourself not giving but recieving all of these words from someone. Someone you really love and imagine their reaction, how good they feel, knowing that you recieved in appreciation and seeing what it does for you. Now, ask yourself, can you give to that someone in the same measure? with out holding anything. With none the words inbetween such as "But" or "Its different" Just loving.
Now for a disclaimer, I understand some situations are cannot be the same as others. Remember I said someone you love that loves you too. Then Imagine giving that kind of love to someone you do not know, just because. "...if I have the gift of knowlege, all mysteries, speak in tongues of men and angels or have a faith that can move mountains, even give all I have to the poor but have no love, I am nothng. LOVE is patient, kind, is not jealous, does ...not boast, not proud, not rude, not selfish, not easily angered, It holds no record of wrong, does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, hopes, always trusts, always perseveres, Love never fails and these three remain, Faith, Hope and Love and the greatest of these is Love.We will never be perfect in all these things, but the closer to it we get the better our lives and our relationships. A powerful line of poetry from the creator of LOVE.
2 comments:
To some people love is a monster, to others, love does not exist, to most people, love is that fantasy the turns into reality when you meet the right partner but when it happens, it is rarely ever is exactly the same like they dreamt of.
What ever the definitions we have had for love. It boils down to this, We all want to be loved. We have to know how to give it and most especially how to recieve it. Its starts by loving ourselves. If we do not love ourselves enough, no amount of love we get from someone else will sufficient.
It is a bit controvercial to say we have to know how to recieve Love. Picture this, No matter how much your parents said they loved you when you were a kid, when you did not get what you wanted you thought they did not care right? Same with God, no matter how much He tells us that He loves us, unless we truely love ourselves we could be staring at love in the eyes and dreaming of something else in the name of love. Eventually we will not be able to see Gods love as it is. same with our relationships. Thats why we fight and fuss about irrelevant things. It is all because of what we want and are blinded by what we already have. Trying hard in vain to meet up with societal standards. God is Love and Love is God.
Love is connecting with and sharing you with everbody. But society in this day has lost something else important, self love. If you dont have self love, that is when you start to lack. You can only love another the way you love yourself.
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