Hi Everyone,
I am done with patience,for now.See how much I have to work on the patience thing.
Since the advertising powers that be, have decided that February is the month of LOVE, by the way I am happy they did that because perhaps it will get us all started on thinking of what LOVE really is.
I took this from Corinthians 13
LOVE is patient and kind. LOVE is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. LOVE does not demand it's own way. LOVE is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever truth wins out. LOVE never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. LOVE will last forever. There are three things that will endure; faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love.
Do you love like this?
Are you loved like this?
Do you love yourself like this?
Where I fall short of expressing true LOVE is when I want my own way, when I know what is best and what is good for you, and how you should behave, when I get stubbron, when another makes me so mad that I want to punish them and show them who is really right, Oh there goes my self-righteous nature. Loving those who have wronged me!!! Now the word of God has just gone too far. How could I ever do that. Could it be that whatever attitude I put out there I am going to get back a million times over untill I get it Again it seems I want to right rather then be LOVING.
I would like you to blog back on your ideas of LOVE and what interfers with how you express it. I think this could be a good dialogue for all of us.
I am looking forward to reading all your responses.
Linda
well i do love that way and fortunatly i am loved that way loving myself that way is atall order especially when it comes to patience.loving those who have wronged me is a whole other story that one i have to leave to my prayer of forgivness to god.
ReplyDeleteLoving our enemies and loving yourself just as you are. Wow you picked the two hardest. Yes, I know what hurt and betrayal feels like. It is like an arrow with a slow workign posson tip that pierces our hearts. We hold that bitter poison inour hearts and keep picking at it making it bleed over and over again.
ReplyDeletethe spiritual way is to "Do good for our enimies, Mat 5: 34-39. By praying and wishing them well we overcome evil with good.
What! Pray for them! Do you know what they did to me! Do good for that dirty so and so!" Is that what is going through your mind? I know it went through mine when I had to learn this one. Somehow I thought that I had power by holding it against them, keeping them in mental bondage. Of course after a while, I realized that I was there with them, connected forever and ever until I let them go.
It does feel all wrong. Sometimes I keep them very far away from me while I bless them with good thoughts for them. Bless them over and over again even if you do not feel like it and you will see that before you know it that bitter poison is gone. Do you have to be their buddy after ? NO
thats my take on it.