"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction,...,that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love." Mortimer Adler
"Love...is not self-seeking." I Cor. 13:5(NIV)
I would like to take the time to introduce a new thought pattern concerning love and lust. We have been taught over the years that the opposite of love is hate. Love is defined as having a strong feeling or affection. Hate, contrarily, is having strong dislike or hostility. Nonetheless, let's broaden our scope on love beyond a feeling and see it as an action. How do we know the wind exists? We see its effects. Emotions are real yet we don't see them. People may have a plethora of emotions towards something or someone, but the proof thereof is in their actions. We know people love us because there is evidence.
Love and hate have become such watered down terms that sometimes people get them confused. The cliche goes "there's a thin line between love and hate". Why? Some people when offended or hurt respond in actions that portray hate, like hostility. So how can you tell if someone truly loves you if that same person turns around and purposely harms you in retaliation?
I believe a litmus test to discover if people truly loves you is how they respond when you hurt them, whether intentionally or unintentionally. A lot of people are in lust with people and not love. For the most part, we see lust solely in the context of a strong sexual desire or a strong desire, like the lust of money. Nonetheless, we should challenge ourselves to look at emotions with their end results or effects. Someone may lust after someone else's spouse or date, why? For their benefit whether it be sexual or emotional. People may lust after money or power, but why? For their benefit, no matter how they acquire it.
The Bible says love doesn't seek after itself, meaning it's not selfish. Let's define love and lust from the standpoints of their end results. Love seeks to sacrifice for someone else's benefit and lust seeks to benefit from someone else's sacrifice. In this context, the people who smear your name, fight you or damage your property because you had disagreements or decided to end relationships are more so distraught over losing whatever you sacrificed for their benefit. They are caught up in selfish, "if I can't have you or what I want, then you will suffer."
Love doesn't repay hurt for hurt. Love covers offenses not exposes them to the detriment of others for its justification or satisfaction. Love isn't arrogant and can admit wrongdoing. Love never fails and overcomes all challenges. There is no expiration date on love.
When entering relationships, we should question ourselves not what we can get out of them or what people can do for us...that would be taking on the perspective of self-serving, ergo lust. We should challenge ourselves to seek how we can benefit other people's lives. I always look to see what benefit I can be in people's lives and especially those I "love". When you love people who have grasped this same concept, you will find yourself in mutually beneficial relationships. If someone is off kilter, it doesn't mean you discard the relationship, you must readjust how you respond to them and recognize what emotion is driving their regard towards you, love or lust.
We can't tell people how to act but we can give them examples by the way we choose to act and respond.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
In Love, We Usually Find Ourselves
The adage goes "opposites attract", and in a lot of cases this scientific theory can be applied to human relations. However, in most recent times, even scientific theories have been proven not to be absolute. Opposite gender, race and personalities and so forth may attract in general. On the other hand, when regarding human compatibility we take notice that it is usually those things that are opposite that can potentially detract from the relationship, especially when it comes to principles and general mindsets.
Differences can enhance a relationship especially when those differences are strengths where the other person has challenges. If a person is impetuous, they can benefit a lot from a person who has more patience and temperance. However, when it comes to the rudimentary components of life and what people adhere to their core belief systems and standards of living, antagonism is not a match but an annoyance.
God created us in His image. Why was it necessary to create man? Perhaps, He wanted an intimate relationship, someone he could be in love with and someone who could choose to love him back. Therefore, God created a being that reflects himself because He loves himself. God is love. If you love yourself, then what better person to love and spend your life with then someone who reflects you. It would appear easier to live in harmony with such a person.
This does not mean we have to be identical, but perhaps of the same basic makeup and element. This gives weight to the adages of "iron sharpening iron" (like element) or "how can two walk together unless they agree" (mindsets, beliefs, temperaments). Since no two people are clones, where both are individually challenged, perhaps they may strengthen each other or at least be able to understand one another. Where one might lack knowledge or wherewithall, the other may balance that. When people are of different dispositions sometimes they have a difficult time empathizing with why a person thinks or acts the way he does.
When considering marriage and becoming "one" with someone, it would seem we would want someone who fits. When doing an organ transplant, a person is acquiring a vital organ from someone else and he's going to live with that organ for the rest of his life. Nonetheless, a very crucial procedure is administered before this life-saving procedure can be done, a compatibility test. Does the blood type match? The parties must have the same blood, if not, the vital organ cannot and will not thrive. Therefore, this limits who can be qualified donors.
This same logic can be applied to finding a partner or mate with whom to spend the rest of our lives. Someone who has the same "blood". Someone where the vital essence of who we are is compatible and not rejected. Someone who's mental, intellectual, spiritual and/or emotional DNA is like ours. All the other commonplaces in life like, jobs, education, hobbies and personal interests can vary, similar interests and areas of enjoyment can serve as enhancements. The person does not have to be a clone but perhaps a mere reflection. Areas where they differ, it should add and not subtract from the relationship.
If we explored this thought, then perhaps it unlocks the key as to why people "fall in love" with who they do. At whatever phases we find ourselves in our development and evolution as a people, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, we are perhaps more drawn to those who reflect us at those stages. Sometimes this is good and sometimes it is not. If you keep falling in love with a certain "type" of person, look at where you are in life and what you are emanating.
People usually keep company with like-minded people. If you see mediocrity in your life then perhaps, I can almost guarantee, you are not only surrounding yourself with mediocre people but somehow you have fallen into the snare of mediocrity yourself. Mediocrity is easily viewed in a person's life because it produces stagnation and stunts growth, it lacks the fruit of progression and ambition. Nonethless, if you know that's not who you are, you will probably fall in love with someone who you see a "true reflection" of who you see yourself as. We can love endless amounts of people but we generally don't fall in love as easily. Being in love has "staying power".
Sometimes people may say, "why do I keep attracting crazy people?" Perhaps, there's something you're emanating that says that you have toleration for crazy people or that you are crazy yourself. (smile) If you look at your dating resume and if you see common trends then perhaps that's what you're emanating or you are just following the basic scientific theory of opposites attract. If you place value on things such as education, self-improvement, family, spirituality, you will probably be attracted to people who share those values.
People, I believe, want to live in harmony. If you are not at harmony with yourself then perhaps you are attracting people of the same spirit. If you are needy perhaps you are attracting needy people. If you have an ill attitude and unrelenting baggage from your past perhaps you are attracting the same. We create most of the drama in our lives by the way we handle people and process our own emotions and thoughts.
This is not to say that "falling in love" can be put into some "absolute" irrefutable theory. We love who we love, we don't have to rationalize it or explain it. However, isn't it interesting to think that perhaps who we are "in love "with is a direct reflection of ourselves? Sometimes we can search the world to find that which is compatible to us, and when we return to our starting place, we are looking right back at ourselves. God sees his reflection in who he chose to love, us. The same can apply to husband to wife, parent to child and friend to friend. In love, we usually find ourselves and the first love is self love. That's how we survive.
Differences can enhance a relationship especially when those differences are strengths where the other person has challenges. If a person is impetuous, they can benefit a lot from a person who has more patience and temperance. However, when it comes to the rudimentary components of life and what people adhere to their core belief systems and standards of living, antagonism is not a match but an annoyance.
God created us in His image. Why was it necessary to create man? Perhaps, He wanted an intimate relationship, someone he could be in love with and someone who could choose to love him back. Therefore, God created a being that reflects himself because He loves himself. God is love. If you love yourself, then what better person to love and spend your life with then someone who reflects you. It would appear easier to live in harmony with such a person.
This does not mean we have to be identical, but perhaps of the same basic makeup and element. This gives weight to the adages of "iron sharpening iron" (like element) or "how can two walk together unless they agree" (mindsets, beliefs, temperaments). Since no two people are clones, where both are individually challenged, perhaps they may strengthen each other or at least be able to understand one another. Where one might lack knowledge or wherewithall, the other may balance that. When people are of different dispositions sometimes they have a difficult time empathizing with why a person thinks or acts the way he does.
When considering marriage and becoming "one" with someone, it would seem we would want someone who fits. When doing an organ transplant, a person is acquiring a vital organ from someone else and he's going to live with that organ for the rest of his life. Nonetheless, a very crucial procedure is administered before this life-saving procedure can be done, a compatibility test. Does the blood type match? The parties must have the same blood, if not, the vital organ cannot and will not thrive. Therefore, this limits who can be qualified donors.
This same logic can be applied to finding a partner or mate with whom to spend the rest of our lives. Someone who has the same "blood". Someone where the vital essence of who we are is compatible and not rejected. Someone who's mental, intellectual, spiritual and/or emotional DNA is like ours. All the other commonplaces in life like, jobs, education, hobbies and personal interests can vary, similar interests and areas of enjoyment can serve as enhancements. The person does not have to be a clone but perhaps a mere reflection. Areas where they differ, it should add and not subtract from the relationship.
If we explored this thought, then perhaps it unlocks the key as to why people "fall in love" with who they do. At whatever phases we find ourselves in our development and evolution as a people, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, we are perhaps more drawn to those who reflect us at those stages. Sometimes this is good and sometimes it is not. If you keep falling in love with a certain "type" of person, look at where you are in life and what you are emanating.
People usually keep company with like-minded people. If you see mediocrity in your life then perhaps, I can almost guarantee, you are not only surrounding yourself with mediocre people but somehow you have fallen into the snare of mediocrity yourself. Mediocrity is easily viewed in a person's life because it produces stagnation and stunts growth, it lacks the fruit of progression and ambition. Nonethless, if you know that's not who you are, you will probably fall in love with someone who you see a "true reflection" of who you see yourself as. We can love endless amounts of people but we generally don't fall in love as easily. Being in love has "staying power".
Sometimes people may say, "why do I keep attracting crazy people?" Perhaps, there's something you're emanating that says that you have toleration for crazy people or that you are crazy yourself. (smile) If you look at your dating resume and if you see common trends then perhaps that's what you're emanating or you are just following the basic scientific theory of opposites attract. If you place value on things such as education, self-improvement, family, spirituality, you will probably be attracted to people who share those values.
People, I believe, want to live in harmony. If you are not at harmony with yourself then perhaps you are attracting people of the same spirit. If you are needy perhaps you are attracting needy people. If you have an ill attitude and unrelenting baggage from your past perhaps you are attracting the same. We create most of the drama in our lives by the way we handle people and process our own emotions and thoughts.
This is not to say that "falling in love" can be put into some "absolute" irrefutable theory. We love who we love, we don't have to rationalize it or explain it. However, isn't it interesting to think that perhaps who we are "in love "with is a direct reflection of ourselves? Sometimes we can search the world to find that which is compatible to us, and when we return to our starting place, we are looking right back at ourselves. God sees his reflection in who he chose to love, us. The same can apply to husband to wife, parent to child and friend to friend. In love, we usually find ourselves and the first love is self love. That's how we survive.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Loving A Stranger
The world mourns the death of a 20th and 21st century iconographic musical and entertainment genius, Michael Jackson. Death, whether sudden or expected, is always a tough reality to accept. Nonetheless, it's an inevitable part of a gift we have called life.
There are millions who are mourning the death of a man they never met. They are crying tears around the globe and saluting him because he touched their lives. He touched their lives with his pursuit of his passion, music. When we are born, we are born with gifts and talents. Some of us have the opportunity of sharing those with hundreds, thousands or millions of people. Whatever the case, our gifts to the world are mere extensions of us. Good fruit comes good trees, yet trees do get worn and torn from the hardships of life.
There are millions right now who can say they "love" this passing icon. Why love "just an entertainer"? Why love anyone for that fact? Why love a man who had what seems so much "baggage"? It wasn't his baggage that made us dance, sing or rejoice, it was his gifts. We love just because it's God nature on the inside of us. We are made in the image and likeness of God. God is love. We don't need someone to teach us how to love, it's embedded in our spiritual DNA. We can love "strangers" because their gifts and talents have blessed us, made us happy, made us smile, sparked good memories, encouraged us during a rough episode in our lives, exhorted us past our present and gave us hope for our tomorrow.
Love isn't deep, we make it deep. Can we love flawed beings? Everyone born is flawed, our parents, teachers, ministers, friends, politicians and etc. Charisma, gifts or talents doesn't make them deities of perfection. God created flawed beings that he would love. He loves us everyday regardless of, just because. Although we may have insights to a person's vices, flaws, indiscretions, weaknesses, brokenness, or sins, doesn't mean we can't love them. Love doesn't need permission. Love says, "I know you are an imperfect being, yet and still, I can look beyond that and still say I love you."
There are millions who are mourning the death of a man they never met. They are crying tears around the globe and saluting him because he touched their lives. He touched their lives with his pursuit of his passion, music. When we are born, we are born with gifts and talents. Some of us have the opportunity of sharing those with hundreds, thousands or millions of people. Whatever the case, our gifts to the world are mere extensions of us. Good fruit comes good trees, yet trees do get worn and torn from the hardships of life.
There are millions right now who can say they "love" this passing icon. Why love "just an entertainer"? Why love anyone for that fact? Why love a man who had what seems so much "baggage"? It wasn't his baggage that made us dance, sing or rejoice, it was his gifts. We love just because it's God nature on the inside of us. We are made in the image and likeness of God. God is love. We don't need someone to teach us how to love, it's embedded in our spiritual DNA. We can love "strangers" because their gifts and talents have blessed us, made us happy, made us smile, sparked good memories, encouraged us during a rough episode in our lives, exhorted us past our present and gave us hope for our tomorrow.
Love isn't deep, we make it deep. Can we love flawed beings? Everyone born is flawed, our parents, teachers, ministers, friends, politicians and etc. Charisma, gifts or talents doesn't make them deities of perfection. God created flawed beings that he would love. He loves us everyday regardless of, just because. Although we may have insights to a person's vices, flaws, indiscretions, weaknesses, brokenness, or sins, doesn't mean we can't love them. Love doesn't need permission. Love says, "I know you are an imperfect being, yet and still, I can look beyond that and still say I love you."
Saturday, May 9, 2009
The Bill of Rights of Love
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."--Aristotle
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."--Erich Fromm
One of the most dynamic emotions one will experience in his/her lifetime is love. There are varying experiences and degrees of love but an intimate lifelong love between two souls appears to be the most coveted. At first glance it doesn't seem very hard to achieve in a world full of incredible people. Nonetheless, that type of love is a rare commodity. It cannot be substituted or mistaken.
Love has to go beyond an emotion because we as humans can learn in time how to control our emotions, turn them on and off. Love has to become an atmosphere and environment experienced mind, body and soul. If it is left in the emotional realm then sometimes you will feel it and sometimes you won't. Love isn't schizophrenic and doesn't alter itself due to external stimuli. You're not in love with someone and meet someone the next day and now your love is in question. You're not in love with someone but don't demonstrate it in words, deeds and actions. With this kind of love comes commitment and responsibility. If you aren't giving or receiving both then you really need to step back and re-examine the relationship.
You are a gift from God and you deserve to be treated as such. Different people like different things. You're not a gift to everyone but to that someone special. There is someone's life you fit into perfectly, and you both know it and feel it. If only you feel it, then don't try to make a square peg fit into a circle.
In this phenomenal experience there are things we all have a right to know and feel. Here are a few:
1. You have the right to know you are irreplaceable and that you have an immeasurable value.
2. You have the right to know come hell or hot water you will have someone that has your back.
3. You have a right to know that even if your worst secrets were exposed that someone else's love would cover you.
4. You have a right to know that what you share is consistent and doesn't fluctuate with moods, circumstances and opinions.
5. You have a right to know that in a world full of beautiful people that someone thinks you are the most beautiful, from the inside out.
6. You have a right to know that if you died tomorrow that although life goes on, someone's life would be filled with an emptiness that only you can fill.
7. You have a right to hear the words "I love you" as well as to see them in action.
8. You have a right to feel safe and secure and not threaten or disregarded.
9. You have a right to feel that there are no mountains or valleys that can prevail against your love.
10. You have a right to feel you are respected and admired above all others.
All of the above, are not just for you but also for the other person with whom you are in love. Love is a never-ending ring of reciprocity. If there is no reciprocity then something is broken and it will hinder you from experiencing the entirety of love and its overwhelming benefits.
Almost seems like a tough order to fill. That's where faith and patience come in. Sometimes we settle for less and see what we want to see because of the loneliness and desires in our lives. Sometimes we experience the "it seems to good to be true" moments. When all the infatuation smoke clears then we are left with a substance. This substance can either be broken in time or withstand the tests of time. Only you know the answer...but in whatever road you choose, just remember your love rights.
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."--Erich Fromm
One of the most dynamic emotions one will experience in his/her lifetime is love. There are varying experiences and degrees of love but an intimate lifelong love between two souls appears to be the most coveted. At first glance it doesn't seem very hard to achieve in a world full of incredible people. Nonetheless, that type of love is a rare commodity. It cannot be substituted or mistaken.
Love has to go beyond an emotion because we as humans can learn in time how to control our emotions, turn them on and off. Love has to become an atmosphere and environment experienced mind, body and soul. If it is left in the emotional realm then sometimes you will feel it and sometimes you won't. Love isn't schizophrenic and doesn't alter itself due to external stimuli. You're not in love with someone and meet someone the next day and now your love is in question. You're not in love with someone but don't demonstrate it in words, deeds and actions. With this kind of love comes commitment and responsibility. If you aren't giving or receiving both then you really need to step back and re-examine the relationship.
You are a gift from God and you deserve to be treated as such. Different people like different things. You're not a gift to everyone but to that someone special. There is someone's life you fit into perfectly, and you both know it and feel it. If only you feel it, then don't try to make a square peg fit into a circle.
In this phenomenal experience there are things we all have a right to know and feel. Here are a few:
1. You have the right to know you are irreplaceable and that you have an immeasurable value.
2. You have the right to know come hell or hot water you will have someone that has your back.
3. You have a right to know that even if your worst secrets were exposed that someone else's love would cover you.
4. You have a right to know that what you share is consistent and doesn't fluctuate with moods, circumstances and opinions.
5. You have a right to know that in a world full of beautiful people that someone thinks you are the most beautiful, from the inside out.
6. You have a right to know that if you died tomorrow that although life goes on, someone's life would be filled with an emptiness that only you can fill.
7. You have a right to hear the words "I love you" as well as to see them in action.
8. You have a right to feel safe and secure and not threaten or disregarded.
9. You have a right to feel that there are no mountains or valleys that can prevail against your love.
10. You have a right to feel you are respected and admired above all others.
All of the above, are not just for you but also for the other person with whom you are in love. Love is a never-ending ring of reciprocity. If there is no reciprocity then something is broken and it will hinder you from experiencing the entirety of love and its overwhelming benefits.
Almost seems like a tough order to fill. That's where faith and patience come in. Sometimes we settle for less and see what we want to see because of the loneliness and desires in our lives. Sometimes we experience the "it seems to good to be true" moments. When all the infatuation smoke clears then we are left with a substance. This substance can either be broken in time or withstand the tests of time. Only you know the answer...but in whatever road you choose, just remember your love rights.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Love With No Small Print
"The most beautiful words I have heard in my 36 years are... I love you just as you are."~ DD Jewell
The mere words "I love you" have lost their potency because of the unspoken conditions attached to them. Within these conditions lie a large gray area of discrepancies between which intentions and/or actions personify love. People are quick to profess their love but slow to demonstrate it. For those who may demonstrate it, they may have "expiration" dates to their "love". These expiration dates are in the "small print", the conditions. Those conditions are connected to their pleasures, displeasures, acceptance, rejection, approval and disapproval.
-I love you if you do or be who I need you to be.
-I love you as long as you are a source of happiness for me.
-I love you as long as things go my way and you accept my terms, demands, likes and dislikes.
-I love you as long as you look a certain way.
-I love you as long as that love doesn't cost me anything or doesn't inconvenience me.
-I love you as long as I don't have to be accountable or responsible to you for my actions, words and deeds.
Most people's love towards others is indeed self-serving versus self-sacrificing. The bottom line is what can they get out of you versus what can they do for you. When I look at a person from the budding of a potential relationship, I ask myself, "how can I be a blessing or of benefit to this person's life?"
What a beautiful feeling to know the expressed and demonstrated certainty of someone's love. We see this expressed from God towards us and most parents towards their children. How wonderfully reassuring it is for someone to see you, in your entirety-the good, bad and ugly- and say "I love you as you are". This translates to acceptance and freedom.
When you accept someone you allow them to be free to be themselves. Of course, this doesn't mean tolerating junk, garbage and foolishness. We must have standards and live principle-centered lives. Yet, in doing so, we must give "grace and mercy" to others because that they are like us, imperfect.
We all have some more growing and maturing to do. Nevertheless, isn't it comforting to know that if we never reach the actualization of all our ambitions, dreams and prayers, we have people whose love for us is constant and unwavering. That's the kind of love we need and the kind we should seed. For the people I have chosen to love (yes, love is a choice), I've looked beyond their exteriors and saw their interiors. I saw souls that I could love with no conditions and/or expiration dates.
What corrupts the unconditional love covenant is disclosure and transparency. Sometimes opportunists mask who they really are and manipulate you into believing a farce. Love is a choice and we have to KNOW who it is we are choosing to love. Sometimes our intuition or discernment discloses the truth but we ignore the signs. Sometimes we choose to have faith in what is presented before us or innately adopt the theory that we can change people.
Not everyone who comes across our paths is a qualified or equally yoked candidate for "unconditional love." God bestows that kind of love to all of us because we belong to him. Nonetheless, we have to choose Him to be full recipients of that love. Just like we have to choose to love, embrace and accept God, we have to do likewise with others. We have to watch as well as pray for those who are in our lives, both entering and exiting.
The mere words "I love you" have lost their potency because of the unspoken conditions attached to them. Within these conditions lie a large gray area of discrepancies between which intentions and/or actions personify love. People are quick to profess their love but slow to demonstrate it. For those who may demonstrate it, they may have "expiration" dates to their "love". These expiration dates are in the "small print", the conditions. Those conditions are connected to their pleasures, displeasures, acceptance, rejection, approval and disapproval.
-I love you if you do or be who I need you to be.
-I love you as long as you are a source of happiness for me.
-I love you as long as things go my way and you accept my terms, demands, likes and dislikes.
-I love you as long as you look a certain way.
-I love you as long as that love doesn't cost me anything or doesn't inconvenience me.
-I love you as long as I don't have to be accountable or responsible to you for my actions, words and deeds.
Most people's love towards others is indeed self-serving versus self-sacrificing. The bottom line is what can they get out of you versus what can they do for you. When I look at a person from the budding of a potential relationship, I ask myself, "how can I be a blessing or of benefit to this person's life?"
What a beautiful feeling to know the expressed and demonstrated certainty of someone's love. We see this expressed from God towards us and most parents towards their children. How wonderfully reassuring it is for someone to see you, in your entirety-the good, bad and ugly- and say "I love you as you are". This translates to acceptance and freedom.
When you accept someone you allow them to be free to be themselves. Of course, this doesn't mean tolerating junk, garbage and foolishness. We must have standards and live principle-centered lives. Yet, in doing so, we must give "grace and mercy" to others because that they are like us, imperfect.
We all have some more growing and maturing to do. Nevertheless, isn't it comforting to know that if we never reach the actualization of all our ambitions, dreams and prayers, we have people whose love for us is constant and unwavering. That's the kind of love we need and the kind we should seed. For the people I have chosen to love (yes, love is a choice), I've looked beyond their exteriors and saw their interiors. I saw souls that I could love with no conditions and/or expiration dates.
What corrupts the unconditional love covenant is disclosure and transparency. Sometimes opportunists mask who they really are and manipulate you into believing a farce. Love is a choice and we have to KNOW who it is we are choosing to love. Sometimes our intuition or discernment discloses the truth but we ignore the signs. Sometimes we choose to have faith in what is presented before us or innately adopt the theory that we can change people.
Not everyone who comes across our paths is a qualified or equally yoked candidate for "unconditional love." God bestows that kind of love to all of us because we belong to him. Nonetheless, we have to choose Him to be full recipients of that love. Just like we have to choose to love, embrace and accept God, we have to do likewise with others. We have to watch as well as pray for those who are in our lives, both entering and exiting.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Love Casts Mountains Into the Sea
“Love conquers all: and we succumb to love.”
- Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil (70-19 BC)
Is there anything Love can't conqueror? First, what is Love? God is Love. One of Love's most valuable, active ingredients is faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Love believes all things, is full of hope. Love without faith is impotent, inactive, incapable of yielding.Life is a cycle of peaks and valleys. When the mountains of despair stand before Love, Love does not coward down. Love activated by “mustard-seed” faith casts the mountain into the sea. We choose who we will love. We don't choose family, we choose our friends. God chose to love us. Greater love has no man than he lay down his life for someone he chooses to love.
There are real mountains in life and there are ones we create. The real mountains are easier to conquer than the ones we create. The ones we create lay captured in the prison of our minds and emotions. Only we have the power to set ourselves free. God gives us the tools and the opportunities to move matter and recreate our lives. Empowered with Love, we are more than conquerors. We can conqueror anything once we conqueror ourselves. Capture that inner power today and go on to fulfill your destiny.
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