Quite an amazing service this morning... And quite the topic - knowing we should love like crazy and knowing how to do it are truly two different things.
I've been thinking this past week a lot about the issue of love - preparing for service - and overall it's made me do some self examining. I've been challenging myself this week to figure out how to love those around me better or in some cases at all. : ) A simple thing like turning off the computer moniter and not multi-tasking when someone is trying to ask me something can go quite a long way. (and as simple as that may sound- it's much harder for me to actually do)
So I challenge you - ask God for a way you can love those around you practically this week... I'm anxious to hear how it goes.
posted by Emily Smith @ 12:38 PM
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I love you Em. If I was there I would take you out to coffee and spend the whole day with you-I know one of our favorite ways to express our love for each other. Ironic since we hardly get to spend time together!
I agree so much with what you said...it is so easy to love the people we are close to, but often hard to love like crazy those people who we are not close with.
Please tell me you did the graphic above!!!!
One thing that helps me to love even those who I find difficult to love, is knowing that those are somehow linked with someone I already love. God's ripple effect eventually touches them, too!
I like your suggestion about stopping what we are doing at a moment to give someone our full attention--eye contact, idle hands, closed mouth--in all of the rush and busy din of our lives...something that simple has come to indicate a sign of importance, respect and love.
The faster technology pushes us the less time we seem to make for each other. A high-speed, megabyte, super-size me kind of love. Thanks for the challenge to stay out of that trap.
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