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.

So How Do You Heal?

I woke up in the early morning hours and thought, "So how do you heal?" A response occurred in consciousness, "You have to be good and pure." I responded, "I can't be that good." Then, a true angel message came that countered, "You just have to love." 

With love you can heal others and be healed. 

But how do you love? What kind of love is this? 

These questions led me to remembering Henry Drummond's small book entitled, The Greatest Thing in the World, based on Paul's letter to the Corinthians. Although written and published back in the 1800's, it remains current, relevant, instructional, and life-changing. Drummond was an evangelist from Scotland. His concise analyzation of love, based on the Scripture in I Corinthians 15 remains a rich gift to the world.

The Scripture reads:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I gave my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (Letter of Paul to the Corinthians).

Paul points out that three things "abide" -- are permanent --faith, hope, and love, but the "greatest" is love. Drummond, therefore, notes that the greatest thing in all the world, is love. Love is what heals. It heals grief -- emotional pain -- by turning it to unsolved spiritual energy and purpose, to gentleness, to comfort. Love has the power to heal anything of any nature, no matter what.

ACTION STEP: Get Henry Drummond's book and check back here each day for extra help on implementing its ideas. Drummond challenges his readers to read this Scripture each day for a month, promising incredible transformation. Further, this blog will take a small portion of the Scripture each day to completion to aid in assimilating and applying the ideas that comprise this greatest thing that is within you -- this most powerful healing thing called Love.

BEGIN. Begin now with the first verse and watch that you speak with love, with a loving tone, patiently. Anything you say that has not a sense of love makes your words "as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal" -- without power or influence -- empty. Put the tone of love in your voice.

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