Don't Waste Love

"I don't want to waste our love."

Lord, this is my prayer: Don't let me waste the love I've been given nor the love I give.

I can give you love, and you can waste it, let it pour out on the side.

You can give me love, but I can leave it there and not pick it up or use it, or enjoy it.

Just as we can squander money, or dawdle with our time, love can be wasted too.

Don't let it happen to you.

Wired For Love

Caroline Leaf, a brain researcher, has written a book that caught my attention: Who Switched Off My Brain. She has some interesting quotes on our love and our thinking processes:

It is often said that forgiveness leads to the ability to love...

Scientific research proves that love is good for your health.

We are wired for love.

(page 160 and 173-ebook version)

Love, Transformation, Vulnerability, & Healing

David Benner exclaimed in his book, Surrender to Love, "The single most important thing I have learned in over thirty years of study of how love produces healing is that love is transformational only when it is received in vulnerability." (p. 76)

He further said, "Genuine transformation requires vulnerability." (ibid)

He reminds us of the risk we experience by allowing ourselves "to be loved unconditionally." (ibid)

Learning- Loving - Living

David Benner wraps up his book, Surrender to Love, with concluding: ""Learning to love is learning to live." (p.101)

He has already said, "There is nothing more important than learning love." (p. 98)

Now he ties learning - love - and life together in a present.

Loving helps us live more fully. Loving brings 'presentness' to life. You are present (engaged, interacting) with your reality and those around you, and it is a present (gift) that you have love in your life.

I want to live, so I must not lose the lesson(s) of love.

Ephesians 3:19- to know this love...so you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Or as The Message version says, "Live full lives, full in the fullness of God."

Today, remember to live and love

"We live, we love..."
"Today we remember to live and love..."

Nothing More Important to Learn than Love

"There is nothing more important than learning love, because this is learning that counts for eternity...Learning to love is therefore the core task of the human psychospiritual journey."

(p. 98, Surrender to Love, David Benner)

Nothing more important.

Something that counts for eternity.

The core task of our journey.

Something we better do!

The Acid Test

David Benner tells it well in his book, Surrender to Love, "Love always contains sparks of divine presence." He explains, "This is why genuine love always calls us to deeper places of trust and connection." (p. 84)

He expounds, "Love is the acid test of Christian spirituality. If Christian conversion is authentic, we are in a process of becoming more loving. If we are not becoming more loving, something is seriously wrong." (p. 90)

Take the acid test today.