Practice Love and Find Healing

I hope everyone maintains a beautiful Christmas feel in their hearts and souls today, December 26, and every day forever. The magical feel of this celebration in its spiritual sense has its source in Love.

Author of The Greatest Thing in the World, Henry Drummond, writes these motivational words that urge us to live in Love and practice loving: "Now the business of our lives is to have these things [the elements of love as analyzed in the past series of blogs, found in I Cor. 13] fitted into our characters. That is the supreme work to which we need to address ourselves in this world, to learn love. Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love" (13).

ACTIVE WATCH: take the above idea and act on three of the thousands of opportunities to learn and practice love that come your way today. You can do this whether you go out or are shut in, you can do this if you are among people or alone. Your thoughts, when laced with Love, go forth with spiritual power to help and heal, and this unselfish loves does not come back to you void, but blesses you as well. Is there a place, a person or situation, where the opposite of love is felt when you think on it or live with it? It is a claim that love is absent, but God is Love and ever present. In those difficult emotional circumstances, take your thought away from the trigger [that which incites the negative reaction or feeling] and simply anchor conscious thought to God, to Love. Leave the personal sense for a minute, turn your back to it, and face the Light of Love entirely. He will care you for and adjust the situation.

At the end of the day today, think back over opportunities you had to express love. How did you do? Did you find three times to consciously choose love? Try it again tomorrow! Find four opportunities. Create a habit. Practice love. Jesus reassures us, "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light," (Matt. 11:30). Where Love is, the burden is light. Where love is expressed everything is eased.

Drummond, Henry (2011-01-01). The Greatest Thing in the World, Experience the Enduring Power of Love (p. 13). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.