Love is not something you can boast about because if you truly love and have love, it will show through. It needs no boasting. In fact, anyone that boasts how much love they have probably is missing the true point of what love truly is.
I grew up in a family where we went to church on Sunday morning and heard love preached. We embraced the words of love for all mankind, but by the time we got in the car on the way home, the gossip and things that were said gave no indication we understood what we had heard.
Proclaim love but actions don't match...
I see the same thing on social media where people proclaim how much love they have for others, but then they go and share some of the most hateful things out there. I'm not saying everyone has to agree with everyone else in the world, but if you're going to profess love for others, make sure it shows in you actions, not just in words you spew. Make sure they match.
Boasting about how great you are or all that you've done is not true love in my view. Why does anyone need to know? Why can't you just allow your actions of love to be love - that needs no grandstanding or parties held in honor of your own ego?
Love does not judge...
Love is just there, not demanding or judging. Love just accepts and honors and respects others at all times, not just when it is convenient in a group of like minded brethren.
Love is there silently giving and helping and honoring, not trying to get all that it can get or trample over others. Love does not try to hurt people by inflicting and hurling insults and derogatory comments towards one another.
Love does not bully. Love doe not hate. Love does not try to divide and sow discourse and hatred. Love does not try to pit one group against the other. Love instead tries to understand and comprehend and help or assist.
Love lifts one another up...
Love tries to lift one another up knowing that as we lift each other up, we lift up all mankind and the universe. Love does not want to see others suffer or make fun of someone else. Love offers hugs of acceptance to all it meets.
Love does not call names or feel hurt because it believes others are attacking it. Love only continues to show love. Love does not believe the fears that are fed each and every day to our society through so many sources. Love conquers fear. Love vibrates at a higher energy than fear.
If you say you have love, then by all means - show it! If you say you have love, then don't share the hate filled messages on social media or participate in the activities that divide one human from another. There is no love in that. There is an absence of love.
Instead, allow love to take you by the hand and lead you into moments where you are a positive inspiration to others. Walk into the moments where you help lift others up without judgment and allow them to discover their own path in their own time. Allow love to fill every part of your life, not just ones that are convenient for Sunday morning.
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