May You Love
May 19th, 2017 by Kimberly
When the lots are counted…we will find that it was love that mattered. Love expressed, given, received, fought for. So for those of us fighting right now, I say; keep going.
DR. MARTIN SHAW
via Gratefulness.org
We talk a lot in this world about nice guys finishing last. If you look, you can find plenty of proof that the selfish and the thoughtless get what they want, while the decent person gets stuck with the check. Will it change the world any to make the more loving choice?
Yes. What do you have to show for acts of love? You have the fact that you made a loving choice. In the face of cruelty and spite and greed, you chose to proceed as though things could get better. Our world often seems to have gone wrong, but it will never go as far wrong as it could because you picked love when you didn’t have to.
Today, I will choose to do the loving thing. Not because that’s who I always am – I screw up a lot – but because that’s who I want to be. Each time I choose to think of someone else, to forego returning hurt for hurt, to mend what broke, I have created a piece of love in myself. It may or may not change the people I interact with, but it will definitely change me. That is what matters.
It does not matter who sees the beauty. Kimberly chooses to bloom.
Alex and Evie are at the age where they’re starting to get on one another’s nerves and be actively mean to each other. So I gave them a lecture yesterday about this very thing. I told them that before they say or do anything, they need to examine where the act or words is coming from. Is it out of love, kindness, compassion? Or is it out of jealousy, anger, spite? I told them to be sure they only act in love. It’s easier said than done, but if they stop and think first–even just some of the time–the world will be a better place.
“I have created a piece of love in myself” this statement and thought are truly beautiful.
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Love is essential, beautiful, life giving, and healing. Life is really all about love.