Love in such a way that honors God

Lord, I want to love in a way that honors You.
How can I do that today, everyday?
How can I love in such a way that You get the glory, your people are uplifted, and your grace is shown?
Lord, help me honor You today by my very actions and even thoughts.

Love to be a Blessing

How am I going to be a blessing today?
How can I bless those around me with love in a special way today?
How can I let them know I love them, that I value them, that I am grateful for them?
How can I be a source of love and light to them where they need it?

Help me O Lord to see my opportunities - and "insert love."

How I love myself affects the way I love you

The way I feel about you (and the world) is affected by the way I feel about myself.

Sometimes, my lack of display of love for you, is from an emptiness in myself, not from a lack of love for you. Usually, I don't express myself well, when I don't feel good about myself.

It's sad, but it's about me, not you. Let this not be.

Lord, don't let the lack in me keep me from loving well those around me.

This reminds me of Matthew 22:39- Love your neighbor as yourself. Sometimes that's the problem: I don't love myself well. Help me to love me, the way you intended as well.

Love is not a feeling, it's something you do

As I read about the orphanage in Haiti, that Gray is serving in (www.danitaschildren.org), I found a great quote on love: "love is not a feeling - it is something you do." (Danita Estrella, founder)

Love has spurred this lady to do something- create a haven for orphans.
What is love spurring you to do?
What are you doing with the love in your heart?
Love will move you to do something, what will it be?

Everything Depends on Love

"Everything depends on how we love each other." [Mother Teresa, page 167, The Joy in Loving]

Do you live that way? Do you live like everything in your life depends on how you are loving others? After all, it does. Everything will be a fall out or blessing from that. The overflow of your life will show your love or lack of love with everything around you.

What are you counting on to depend on? I hope it's your love and not anything else.

Be encouraged, Mother Teresa also said, "People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world." (ibid)

God is loving the world through you today

"God loves the world through you and through me today."

Mother Teresa

(page 155, The Joy in Loving)

As Gray is in Haiti serving the people down there today, I think of how I can serve and love here better, more intentionally, more missional. He said the thing about being on a mission trip, is you are really on mission. There is nothing else you are there to do but to serve and to help. If only we lived that way here. I told my neighbor serving her husband who is recovering from surgery, her mission is right there now. Our missions can be a plane ride away, or in our home. But, we must be on mission, serving and loving the world we are in today.

Sin is failing to Love

Sin is failing to love. That's my definition. Whenever I sin, I have failed to love. So, remember that next time you sin. Your sin is the result of your failing to love in some way that you should.

My withholding of love is holding back from God what He is due.

O Lord, do not let me sin against you today (Psalm 51:4). Lord, help me love.