Mark, one of the things I love about reading your words is your level of self-awareness... "I was trained to be the judge, jury, and the victim." — it's inspiring. If everyone could take a deeper look in the mirror now and then, the world would be a better place. But you lead by example.
This is great! The pastor at our church was preaching on love this week. Love as an action, not a feeling. On how love is what our world needs to heal and move forward. That if we all loved on each other as we need to be loved, what a great world this would be. Because, honestly, in our current state of being - there is not enough love going around.
I've been pondering on this, and she is right. We do need to give more love to others. But here is what I started thinking about in our world right now - I think this is really difficult, because so many people don't love themselves. So, in reality - they are loving others as they love themselves - with anger, upset, cruelty etc...and most likely this is not a purposeful decision.
So, then, how do we help our own hearts to love ourselves? (you touched on it - letting go, follow God's lead) How to we help our friends to love themselves first - so that they can then spread that love forth? I think that was my big pondering this week...
Mark, one of the things I love about reading your words is your level of self-awareness... "I was trained to be the judge, jury, and the victim." — it's inspiring. If everyone could take a deeper look in the mirror now and then, the world would be a better place. But you lead by example.
This is great! The pastor at our church was preaching on love this week. Love as an action, not a feeling. On how love is what our world needs to heal and move forward. That if we all loved on each other as we need to be loved, what a great world this would be. Because, honestly, in our current state of being - there is not enough love going around.
I've been pondering on this, and she is right. We do need to give more love to others. But here is what I started thinking about in our world right now - I think this is really difficult, because so many people don't love themselves. So, in reality - they are loving others as they love themselves - with anger, upset, cruelty etc...and most likely this is not a purposeful decision.
So, then, how do we help our own hearts to love ourselves? (you touched on it - letting go, follow God's lead) How to we help our friends to love themselves first - so that they can then spread that love forth? I think that was my big pondering this week...