Its time for us to stop being offended. It is time for us to stop fighting, and stop trying to control. If we wanna see a change for the better in our families, marriages, relationships, we must take a different approach. Love. Mystics, Prophets, Spiritual leaders, and my favorite, Jesus said it over and over and over.
Chances are, you are thinking about how someone or something has hurt or offended you. It happens. Just does. What are you gonna do about it to cause a different experience? Or better yet...... how about YOU cause an experience of love first. Don't wait.
Get up and walk into it.
Daily, I am faced with a choice. Will I create an experience of love with the grocery clerk, gas station attendant, cable man, student, my ex-husband, his wife (I like to call her my step-wife as we do co-parent very well) and of course my own children? Am I willing to take a few extra seconds to make another person feel "bigger" and "more than"? Those few extra seconds are supporting that person mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
Here's an Idea!
With our children.....
We can call out their many wonderful things so that they continue to rise to that occasion.
OR, we can get on to them constantly nagging them about that not so good test grade, or the messy room. That list can go on and on. How about we try something new? How about we try a new approach? How about we try speaking life into their hearts? Just the other day, I told Lily, in front of her brother (who she had been bickering with quite a lot in the past few weeks) that I had really noticed in the last few days she'd been giving of herself. I saw how she had put others needs above her own, and had a willing heart to serve even Tripp. I told her how I loved her heart and how beautiful it was to see her mature into a lovely young woman.
NOW DON'T YOU THINK THAT IS SOMETHING OUR CHILDREN WANNA RISE TO?
Her countenance changed; she sat up straiter, and a smile beamed from her heart outward.
Husbands and wives, how about we stop looking back and living in the past and start calling out the beauty and strengths we see (or hope to see). It will change your relationship! I learned that lesson too late. But I still learned it!
Stop looking back. Stop trying to control everything and everyone with your own agendas, and just love from a place of authenticity. I don't think we would need all of those happy pills and "drugs" of any sort. And by drugs, I mean any addiction like pills, alcohol, and food. What about Facebook, Instagram, Snap Chat, Twitter, or any other thing that distracts us and numbs us. We live in such a narcissistic society! Stop! Look around! People are hurting! People are dying inside and we are focusing on tweeting what we ate for dinner! Really?
NOTHING else matters!!!!! NOTHING. It is so simple.
" If speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
BANKRUPT WITHOUT LOVE!
So what is love?
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut.
Love doesn’t have a swelled head.
Love doesn’t force itself on others
Love Isn’t always “me first.”
Love doesn’t fly off the handle.
Love doesn’t revel when others grovel.
Love takes pleasure in the flowering of truth.
Love puts up with anything.
Love trusts God always.
Love always looks for the best.
Love never looks back.
Love keeps going to the end.
Love never dies.
HOW MANY RELATIONSHIPS WOULD BE SAVED IF WE ALL LIVED THIS WAY?
HOW MANY CHILDREN NOT REBELLING?
HOW MANY LESS BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS IN THE CLASSROOM?
I challenge us all to LOVE today.
BE LOVE!
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