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All You Need Is …

All You Need Is…Love ?

It’s February after all.
And you know what that means.
A day when we try to show how much we LOVE each other.

There are cards to say I love you.
There are sweet treats to show we care.
There are dates, and dinners, and gifts, and flowers…
And of course there are songs to say I love you.

All you need is ______ !

Fill in the blank.
Go ahead, it’s super easy, right?
(And you’ll be singing it all day 🙂  You’re welcome!)

All you need is LOVE!

Why do we want to make things so hard?
Today I’m feeling like the world may have just gone mad.
Lost it.  Gone off their rockers.  Wigged out entirely.
It’s been difficult to watch the news (and many television programs),
scroll through social media, or even have a nice chat with friends and family these days !

People are riled up!
And angry!
And fearful!
And distrustful!

I can feel myself getting sucked into the nasty vortex of emotions too at times.
But this post is not a rant.
And it isn’t a lecture.
You can keep reading.  🙂

All we need is …

As I’ve been working on a really cute Valentine’s Day Unit, I’ve spent quite a bit of time focusing on this whole emotion, action, state of being thing we call LOVE.
What it is.  What it isn’t.
Where it comes from.
How we show it.
Why we need it…And we sooo need it!

The unit is fun, but as I researched and chewed on this topic, I really wanted to share some thoughts I had that are helping me regain my focus and not be pulled into that crazy whirlpool of anger and pride and fear that seems to be sadly circulating in our world right now.

Evil is all around like a thick cloud,
trying to CONFUSE
and INCITE
and DIVIDE.
Evil doesn’t care if you are a Democrat or a Republican;  a man or a woman;
black or white;  completely right or completely wrong.
It’s goal is the same.
Destroy real love.
And where it can’t be destroyed and replaced with hate,
offer a counterfeit so that people are abused, and wounded, and hardened.
And this war is raging within and without.

So what do we do about it?
It’s always easier to see the problem, than to actually DO something about it.
It is all quite simple really.
Not easy, but simple.
Love is a verb.  It’s something to be ACTED UPON!
And love is a choice.
Choose to love.

Start here.
Love God.  Love people.
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome with good.
LOVE
DO love…the powerful, perfect kind of Love that casts out all fear.
The kind that fills your heart till it overflows with patience
and humility, and kindness.
Love that always hopes, always perseveres, and never fails!

Did you see that?
IT NEVER FAILS!
So just do it!
LOVE !

It won’t fail.
It won’t fail when you are watching the world go crazy and wondering how to explain it all to your children.
It won’t fail when your friendships are being divided by disagreement and pride.
It won’t fail when frustrations, failures, and losses fill your mind.
It won’t fail !!

And besides, it’s what we CAN do.
There are a whole lot of things we can’t do much about.
But of this one thing, we have control.
AND there is a Well Spring of it available to us all.
When we have used up all we have in us…there is more.
I don’t know how.
But I know it is true.
I’ve tested it to the limits.

All we need (to do) is… Love.

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.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.”

~1 Corinthians 13:4-8

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