Delight in Love

 

Like returning a car cleaner and with more gas...that's love!

 "Giving back better than you are given is the law of love."  ~Henry Cloud

I realize we live more in tit for tat, than this law by Mr. Cloud.

I realized we also "do unto others as they do to us...not as we would have them do to us." 

Or we do enough, to get by.

It's a payback, give back, or get by - not a law of love.

Let this law of love settle into you.

It could change everything.

How Aware Are You?

 

Love is a Habit

 James K.A. Smith in his book, You are What You Love, says, "if love is a virtue, then love is a habit."  (page 19)  He gives a caveat following that, "it doesn't mean we necessarily love the right thing."  (page 20)  He explains, "We learn to love, then, not primarily by acquiring information about what we should love but rather through practices that form the habits of how we love."  (page 21) 

Note to self:  make good habits - learn to love by practicing it!

You are what you love

 James K.A. Smith in his book, You are what you love, ask the question what if "human beings are first and foremost lovers?"  He goes on, "What if you are defined not by what you know but by what you desire?"  (page 7)  

He expands, "it is our loves that orient us..." (page 9)

He explains, "You can't not love."  He says, "the question isn't whether you will love something as ultimate; the question is what you will love as ultimate.  And you are what you love." (page 10)

He goes on to say, "our most fundamental mode of orientation to the world is love." (page 11)

He concludes:  "We are lovers first and foremost."  (page 12)

What Carries You?

 St Augustine said in his Confessions:  

My weight is my love.

Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.

What carries you?

Prayer as Love

 Dallas Willard says that "the highest act of love" is prayer!  He says that is how we are empowered to love those who do not love us.  It is the highest act of love - what we can do...praying for each other is loving each other.  Love On...Pray On...

(from devotion on page 345, Faith That Matters