Let Love Be The Reason... Pt 2

LOVE IS KIND

Kind means to be friendly, helpful, well-meaning, generous, benevolent, considerate and warm. Kindness (the noun for kind) is not given merely because it is received. It is independent and can thrive without reciprocity.

So when we say Love is kind, we mean that love is friendly, helpful, well-meaning, generous, benevolent, considerate and warm. Love is understanding, and will never allow itself to stop no matter how pained it is by the lack of reciprocity.

If love is truly the reason, then love must be kind. Give kindness, even when you have a good reason not to. This is a quality that love cannot thrive without. Start with the little things...

Blessings and more, to you and yours.

SHALOM

Let Love Be The Reason... Pt 1

LOVE IS PATIENT

Patient, derivable from the word PATIENCE (derivable because patient means a few other things) means "the ability to endure delay, trouble, pain or hardship in a calm and contained way. The courage to tolerate, forbear and persevere"

Thus, when we say "Love is Patient", we mean that love has "the ability to endure delay, trouble, pain or hardship in a calm and contained way. It also has the courage to tolerate, forbear and persevere"

If love is the reason, then love must be patient. This truth is cardinal. Love never breaks under pressure. We must learn how to love and allow ourselves to be loved...

Blessings and more, to you and yours.

SHALOM

Sowing Seeds, Reaping Harvests...

To love and be loved is like sowing seeds and reaping harvests...

To love means you have been given the opportunity to touch a life... To be loved means someone has been given an opportunity to touch your own life. If you have been happy with being loved, then you must allow the other person have the privilege of enjoying the same experience.

Love is a beautiful thing... Give love, receive love, share love; but don't let love become a distraction. Make your time count, so that you will never blame love as the reason for your failings and your failure. Always make your time count... Give love its place. The safest life to live is a balanced life.

 

Never give your children, friends, your chores or your work/career the place of your spouse. You will always regret the outcome.

Never brag about the sacrifice you have made and the great things you have done for your children or in your work/career if you have not done the same for your spouse. You might never be able to deal with the harvest which that seed produces.

Blessings and more, to you and yours

SHALOM

Love... Highly Misinterpreted

Source: Unknown. Statement: Truthful. Recommendation: Don't blame love for what love didn't do and hasn't done...

Blessings and more, to you and yours

SHALOM

Learning From Tina Turner...

"What's LOVE got to do with it?"

This statement was made popular in a song done by one of the greatest female singers of all time, who also happens to be one of my favourite, Tina Turner. The song and the lyrics represented her life at that material time, the experiences she had in her marriage to Ike Turner. The marriage hit the rocks, it was no fault of hers, and a lot of people who found out how abusive the relationship was, were happy for her when she got a divorce.

But Tina went beyond the divorce. She vowed she was never going to marry again. What‘s love got to do with it, What’s love, but a second hand emotion… what’s love, but a sweet old fashioned notion… who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? (Lines from the song, which also made a movie that became a blockbuster).

A lot of people heard that song, loved that song, bought that song, learnt that song, sang the song,

Tina Turner and Erwin Bach

believed in that song and used that song as justification for their position against loving and being loved.

What‘s love got to do with it, an evergreen song that became a creed for many, was broken on July 18, when Tina Turner, now 73 broke her own vow, and made a new vow to love, cherish and hold (till death do them part) Erwin Bach, her lover and friend of 27 years, who also happens to be 57 years old, 16 years younger than she is.

She has broken the seal and laid to durst the creed, the same creed she propounded when she asked “what’s love got to do with it” when she said on July 27 that “Marriage is a wonderful place to be”. This for me has a lesson. When it comes to love, never say never… We shouldn’t shut the door of loving and being loved because of sad or bitter experiences we had from a previous relationship. We are loved, we are created to love.

So you ask me, what’s love got to do with it? I will tell you… Everything! And who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? I do; and you do too… Whether or not you know it now, you sure do.

Blessings and more, to you and yours

SHALOM