Love does not try to coerce.
Love does not condemn.
Love does not cut off.
Love fully accepts, appreciates and embraces with a gentle and giving flow.
The journey to the state of love can be immediate at times, yet many relationships experience turbulent threats to love’s flow. Love cannot endure when ego battles take over. After time, the ego’s defensiveness, criticism, expectations, score keeping, controlling behaviors, resentments, silence, and ill wishes can serve as clots in the arteries that block love’s flow and destroy a relationship.
Most people take a lifetime to fully integrate the lessons of love. The contrasts learned from feeling the scorn of someone’s unloving behavior and experiencing the remorse of our own unloving behaviors toward others is part of how we learn to grow and evolve into more extended states of love.
Inspiration for the Day: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” –1 Cor 13: 4-5
Note: This is an ongoing series to help provide support during these challenging times. These daily readings are part of an overall book on balance, which includes 12 essentials for maintaining balance to support resilience and your best self. The 12 essentials include mind, body, love, service, self, family, intimacy, purpose, environment/living space, nature, social relations, and spirit. This series is sharing 30 days of lessons about love. It will examine multiple aspects of love and provide knowledge and inspiration for hearts to heal and love to flow. It is designed as a daily reader to allow time to reflect, process and incorporate.
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