Is your soul generating love?

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace.  A soul generated by love."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love always involves commitment

"To love means to commit oneself without guarantee,
to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will
produce love in the loved person."  (Erich Fromm)
And, may I add in our hearts and world as well...

What do you not do?

Love’s greatest triumph is not always in what love does but — more often than not — in what love refrains from doing.  ~ O.S. Hawkins, The Joshua Code

Enough?

A little devotional book, Healing Prayers for Every Day, ask the question:  "Do you have enough love to help those who can't help themselves?"  Or, as I thought:  Do you have enough love to love those who can't even love themselves, much less others?

It ends with a prayer:  "Lord, let me feel Your love explode in me so I can love as You love."

(page 105)

A Powerful & Prevalent Passion

"Love is that powerful and prevalent passion, by which all the faculties and inclinations of the soul are determined, and on which both its perfection and happiness depend."

p. 37 (ebook)
The Life of God in the Soul of Man
Henry Scougal
17th Century

To see the best...to think the best ...and to treat them that way...

"To love someone is to see the best in them and to act toward them as though they they were the best...To treat them with respect and love is to call them to be worthy of that respect and that love.  And we can say that to love someone is not to avoid seeing their flaws, but to avoid so focusing on them that the person gets a feeling of hopelessness about changing them."

p. 233 (ebook)
Eric Metaxas
If You Can Keep It

In this book, Eric Metaxas is writing about our country.  But he also teaches us not only about our history but how to truly love.  Whether we love a country or a person, love needs focus and attention. And not on the things that are wrong or lacking, but on what is right and true.

How do you salute?

"Love...consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other."
-poet Rainer Maria Rilke
(p. 59, Letters to a Young Poet)