Love Is

 

Thought for today:
A gracious good morning to you beautiful people

I'm up and about at my usual o'dark thirty spending my early morning quiet reading and letting it wash over me and I see my week in the rear view mirror through the words. During this past week I have had the opportunity to be witness to a great many things. Being who I am...I look to see the passion and purpose in it all.
Tough times reveal people's TRUE character, hence my choice of pics and message for today...what they all boil down to is my message....how we see and value ourselves is in direct correlation but not proportion into how we treat others.
There's a faction of people who are chronic complainers but refuse to problem solve. These are the fault finders who can zero in on vulnerabilities; primarily because these fault mirror their own.
These people are walking wounded. While it is not our job or within our power to heal them, it IS our job to love them and to shine our love light on the wounded and fragile places and to handle them with the greatest of care. This does not mean we baby, nurture, coddle or indulge, this would enable the self serving and entitlement portions of a wound, nor should we punish a person for sharing their hurts...on some levels their actions are a way of saying "I trust you enough to be vulnerable" and a means of asking for help.
There's a line from the movie Love Story "Love means never having to say you're sorry" can I say that the line used to irk my soul until I realized that I was thinking about it with my ego.....
Don't get me wrong, loving someone doesn't mean you accept or tolerate abuse on any level....loving means you look past self and embrace God. Loving is a reciprocal healing.

BE YOURSELVES FREE YOURSELVES WITH AND IN LOVE~KB

1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)
13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.