Tuesday, May 16, 2006
MORNING COFFEE IN MAY.....
…..but the greatest of these is love. (Cor. 13:13)
Love!
What kind of world would we have if everyone made the decision to show love today in every thing they do? If hostility were bridled for a week would the world be different? If reason overpowered misunderstanding would we be less critical? And suppose we lay down all of our frustrations, resentments and fears…….would we need less medicine?
I collect coffee mugs and the one I picked up this morning had “Success is doing what you love” on one side…….on the other it said, “Success is loving what you do.” As I drank my coffee and contemplated the message on the mug, I wondered what it is that makes us “tick.?”
Why is it so easy for some to love and show love when others don’t seem to “get it?” It has nothing to do with genetics or environment…..because not having love can give one an enormous appetite for it and the ability to receive and return it. We know of people who have been shown love from birth to old age and yet they don’t accept it and certainly never show it.
Is it a random gift or magic potion? I think not……because I believe love can be learned. In seeing deeds that show love, mercy because of love, generous giving out of love, unfailing loyalty regardless of price, and undying love……because it can bridge heaven and earth.
It’s kind of down there in us, in that place they call a vacuum, that needs to link up with our Creator. Until that happens, love may be a learned thing but once God fills that black hole in our hearts…..we’re hooked. But good!! It’s impossible to deny the mechanism put in us by our Maker.
Love is not a vanishing commodity. The more you give away, the more you have…..the more someone wants to stamp it out, the more it grows….it is clearly written that if we feel cheated by love it is because of the miserly amounts we have expended. The world doesn’t understand anything about giving more than you get but if you want happiness……..give it all and give it often.
It’s impossible to deny or to hide or to contain. Our face is a mirror of our soul, the eyes, a window. Who is looking back at you………and what do you see?
Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther
Love!
What kind of world would we have if everyone made the decision to show love today in every thing they do? If hostility were bridled for a week would the world be different? If reason overpowered misunderstanding would we be less critical? And suppose we lay down all of our frustrations, resentments and fears…….would we need less medicine?
I collect coffee mugs and the one I picked up this morning had “Success is doing what you love” on one side…….on the other it said, “Success is loving what you do.” As I drank my coffee and contemplated the message on the mug, I wondered what it is that makes us “tick.?”
Why is it so easy for some to love and show love when others don’t seem to “get it?” It has nothing to do with genetics or environment…..because not having love can give one an enormous appetite for it and the ability to receive and return it. We know of people who have been shown love from birth to old age and yet they don’t accept it and certainly never show it.
Is it a random gift or magic potion? I think not……because I believe love can be learned. In seeing deeds that show love, mercy because of love, generous giving out of love, unfailing loyalty regardless of price, and undying love……because it can bridge heaven and earth.
It’s kind of down there in us, in that place they call a vacuum, that needs to link up with our Creator. Until that happens, love may be a learned thing but once God fills that black hole in our hearts…..we’re hooked. But good!! It’s impossible to deny the mechanism put in us by our Maker.
Love is not a vanishing commodity. The more you give away, the more you have…..the more someone wants to stamp it out, the more it grows….it is clearly written that if we feel cheated by love it is because of the miserly amounts we have expended. The world doesn’t understand anything about giving more than you get but if you want happiness……..give it all and give it often.
It’s impossible to deny or to hide or to contain. Our face is a mirror of our soul, the eyes, a window. Who is looking back at you………and what do you see?
Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther
