Smiling & Loving

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

~Mother Teresa

Ahhh, remember her smile? Make your smile a gift of love to all who see, even you inside it!

Direction & Alignment of Love

"Only love of God frames and supports love of neighbor, giving it right direction and the power to carry out its aim of goodness within the kingdom. And love of God neighbor gradually pulls the entire structure of the person into proper alignment." (p. 70,71, Renovation of the Heart, Dallas Willard)

What love and effort can do

Here is a story captured on video of a Father's love for their child. Be encouraged today of how you could love someone so fully to bring about their potential.

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Transformation & Love

"Love, we hear, is patient and kind (I Cor 13:4). Then we mistakenly try to be loving by acting patiently and kindly - and quickly fail. We should always do the best we can in action, of course; but little progress is to be made in that arena until we advance in love itself - the genuine inner readiness and longing to secure the good of others. Until we make significant progress there, our patience and kindness will be shallow and short-lived at best.

It is love itself - not loving behavior, or even the wish or intent to love - that has the power to 'always protect, always trust, always hope, put up with anything and never quit' (I Cor 13:7-8 PAR). Merely trying to act lovingly will lead to despair and to the defeat of love. It will make us angry and hopeless.

But taking love itself - God's kind of love - into the depths of our being through spiritual formation will, by contrast, enable us to act lovingly to an extent that will be surprising even to ourselves, at first. And this love will then become a constant source of joy and refreshment to ourselves and others." (p. 24, Renovation of the Heart, Dallas Willard)

Brandon Heath - Your Love

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Brandon Heath sings, "Your love is the only thing that matters." He exclaims, "It's All I ever needed."

Good & Better News

I told my husband, "The good news is I love you, the better news is I'll pray for you."

I thought later about the truth of that statement. It's good that I love him. But, the better news is I will pray for him. He benefits from my love, but more so by my prayers. Give someone you love good and better news today: Love them and Pray for them.

Let Love Be Your Drive(r)

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr.