Personal Lessons of Love

Love endures when you don't feel like loving.
Love is being patient.
Love is not just a feeling or emotion.
Love is being gentle when others around you are harsh at you.
Love is a commitment.
Love is taking shit when some times you don't deserve it but you choose to look at the bigger picture beyond yourself.
Love is defending your friend when your friend is being bad mouthed by people.
Love is (sometimes) taking a stranger into your car when it's quite a dangerous thing to do but you choose to do it anyway because Kenneth was there with you to help the stanger find her way home.
Love is sending the blind man back to his house at night.
Love is helping a stanger man to the hospital when it's the most inconvenient thing to do at the middle of the night - and following up on his heath the next day and the next week.
Love is reflected in the life of Jesus.
Love in action is seen on the cross.
Love is sincerely caring for people not just for the fame of being praised or looked at.
Love is best exercised in the quiet places where no one notices.

Love is from Him, through you, to others.

Love is one of the simplest theory but hardest to execute and requires the most of you - [for some one else].


Joshua T.

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Anonymous said…
I like this part of what you said "Love is best exercised in the quiet places where no one notices"

It speaks of doing it out from a genuine heart without any expectation of return
8:46 AM
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