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It is important that we always make our love known towards those who mean
the most to us. Many times we get into a routine in life and we neglect
those who are the most near and dear to our hearts. We assume that they
know how we feel about them, but we don't go the extra step to say “I love
you”, “I care about you”, “I'm thinking about you” and “You mean the world
to me.” Saying these simple phrases can do so much to reinforce our
relationships and reignite the memory of our love for each other. We
should never get so comfortable with our loved ones that we forget to say
how we feel about them. Instead, we should make it a habit to say kind
and loving words, to go the extra step to do something special to show our
love and to simply let them know how thankful we are that they are in our
life. Imagine your life without your loved ones. How much more difficult
would your life be without them? Imagining that will make us appreciate
their presence and remind us of how blessed we are to have them.
Be encouraged to make your love known. Do something different that you
haven't recently done. Go the extra step to share your love and you will
find the results to be life changing. Even though they may know you love
him, hearing it again and in a new fashion will reignite the love between
us and it will remind us how lucky we are to have each other. In this
life, all we have is one another and the love that is shared between us.
Nothing should be held back because life is fragile and we can be taken
away from one another in an instant. Never leave any doubt in their mind
of your love. Say it, express it, show it because by doing so you will be
blessing your own life for years to come.
I hope this message encourages and challenges your heart to be quick to
show your love towards those who mean the most to you.
FEELING LOVED
I got to hold a baby again recently. I had taken my son to the doctor’s
office for a checkup and noticed a tired grandmother trying to fill out
the office’s paperwork and comfort her sick grandchild at the same time. I
offered to help and gently rocked the infant back to sleep. With all of my
children being teenagers now, it had been a while since I had held someone
quite so small in my arms.
As I looked at his sweet, innocent face, I couldn’t help but to think of
what life held in store for him. I knew that it would be a mixture of both
joy and fear, laughter and tears, growth and struggle, learning and
difficulty, and love and pain. I said a silent prayer that he would learn
quickly to choose the good things and not to dwell on the bad. I also
prayed that he would always feel loved in this life. I knew that if he
felt loved then he would also choose love and share love with so many
others as well.
I then said this prayer for the rest of us too. We may be fathers,
mothers, and grandparents now, but inside of each of us there is still a
child needing love and wanting to be loved. Thankfully, we have a parent
who loves us with a love that is both unending and unconditional. We are
all Children of God and we are always held in His loving arms as we go
through this life. Even if we haven’t always felt loved by the people in
our lives, we can be assured that His love will always be there for us.
May we all feel loved in this life. May we all feel God’s love for us from
our first breath until our last sigh. May we feel loved through all the
joy we experience and through all the pain we must face as well. May we
use that love to choose the good things in life and not dwell on the bad.
May we use that love to become more loving ourselves every single day of
our lives. May we use that love and share our love to help others feel
loved as well.
By Joseph J. Mazzella
Read and meditate on these scriptures:
Ephesians 4:29-32 “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,
but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace
unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are
sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all
malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
Galatians 6:2-4 “Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of
Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he
deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he
have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth
not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself
unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things,
believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity
never faileth...”
Romans 15:1-4 “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the
weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour
for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as
it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on Me. For
whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”
All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.
Today’s Selected Poem: DON'T LOOK BACK
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Today’s Selected Testimony: ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE
Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/testimony27.htm
In Christ’s Service,
Dwayne Savaya
God’s Work Ministry |
